@copying
@c man begin COPYRIGHT
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Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
* objcopy:: Copy and translate object files
* objdump:: Display information from object files
* ranlib:: Generate index to archive contents
-* readelf:: Display the contents of ELF format files.
+* readelf:: Display the contents of ELF format files
* size:: List section sizes and total size
* strings:: List printable strings from files
* strip:: Discard symbols
* windmc:: Generator for Windows message resources
* dlltool:: Create files needed to build and use DLLs
* Common Options:: Command-line options for all utilities
-* Selecting The Target System:: How these utilities determine the target.
+* Selecting the Target System:: How these utilities determine the target
* Reporting Bugs:: Reporting Bugs
* GNU Free Documentation License:: GNU Free Documentation License
-* Binutils Index:: Binutils Index
+* Binutils Index:: Binutils Index
@end menu
@node ar
table. If an archive lacks the table, another form of @command{ar} called
@command{ranlib} can be used to add just the table.
+@cindex thin archives
+@sc{gnu} @command{ar} can optionally create a @emph{thin} archive,
+which contains a symbol index and references to the original copies
+of the member files of the archives. Such an archive is useful
+for building libraries for use within a local build, where the
+relocatable objects are expected to remain available, and copying the
+contents of each object would only waste time and space. Thin archives
+are also @emph{flattened}, so that adding one or more archives to a
+thin archive will add the elements of the nested archive individually.
+The paths to the elements of the archive are stored relative to the
+archive itself.
+
@cindex compatibility, @command{ar}
@cindex @command{ar} compatibility
@sc{gnu} @command{ar} is designed to be compatible with two different
If you do not specify a @var{member}, all files in the archive
are extracted.
+Files cannot be extracted from a thin archive.
+
@end table
A number of modifiers (@var{mod}) may immediately follow the @var{p}
@samp{S} modifier on the last execution of @samp{ar}, or you must run
@samp{ranlib} on the archive.
+@item T
+@cindex creating thin archive
+Make the specified @var{archive} a @emph{thin} archive. If it already
+exists and is a regular archive, the existing members must be present
+in the same directory as @var{archive}.
+
@item u
@cindex updating an archive
Normally, @samp{ar r}@dots{} inserts all files
[@option{-z}|@option{--disassemble-zeroes}]
[@option{-EB}|@option{-EL}|@option{--endian=}@{big | little @}]
[@option{-f}|@option{--file-headers}]
+ [@option{-F}|@option{--file-offsets}]
[@option{--file-start-context}]
[@option{-g}|@option{--debugging}]
[@option{-e}|@option{--debugging-tags}]
Display summary information from the overall header of
each of the @var{objfile} files.
+@item -F
+@itemx --file-offsets
+@cindex object file offsets
+When disassembling sections, whenever a symbol is displayed, also
+display the file offset of the region of data that is about to be
+dumped. If zeroes are being skipped, then when disassembly resumes,
+tell the user how many zeroes were skipped and the file offset of the
+location from where the disassembly resumes. When dumping sections,
+display the file offset of the location from where the dump starts.
+
@item --file-start-context
@cindex source code context
Specify that when displaying interlisted source code/disassembly
following may be specified as a comma separated string.
@option{x86-64}, @option{i386} and @option{i8086} select disassembly for
the given architecture. @option{intel} and @option{att} select between
-intel syntax mode and AT&T syntax mode. @option{addr64}, @option{addr32},
+intel syntax mode and AT&T syntax mode.
+@option{intel-mnemonic} and @option{att-mnemonic} select between
+intel mnemonic mode and AT&T mnemonic mode. @option{intel-mnemonic}
+implies @option{intel} and @option{att-mnemonic} implies @option{att}.
+@option{addr64}, @option{addr32},
@option{addr16}, @option{data32} and @option{data16} specify the default
address size and operand size. These four options will be overridden if
@option{x86-64}, @option{i386} or @option{i8086} appear later in the
@smallexample
@c man begin SYNOPSIS ranlib
-ranlib [@option{-vV}] @var{archive}
+ranlib [@option{-vVt}] @var{archive}
@c man end
@end smallexample
@itemx -V
@itemx --version
Show the version number of @command{ranlib}.
+
+@item -t
+Update the timestamp of the symbol map of an archive.
@end table
@c man end
characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), @samp{S} =
single-8-bit-byte characters, @samp{b} = 16-bit bigendian, @samp{l} =
16-bit littleendian, @samp{B} = 32-bit bigendian, @samp{L} = 32-bit
-littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings.
+littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings. (@samp{l}
+and @samp{b} apply to, for example, Unicode UTF-16/UCS-2 encodings).
@item -T @var{bfdname}
@itemx --target=@var{bfdname}
[@option{-x} <number or name>|@option{--hex-dump=}<number or name>]
[@option{-p} <number or name>|@option{--string-dump=}<number or name>]
[@option{-c}|@option{--archive-index}]
- [@option{-w[liaprmfFsoR]}|
- @option{--debug-dump}[=line,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=aranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=loc,=Ranges]]
+ [@option{-w[lLiaprmfFsoR]}|
+ @option{--debug-dump}[=rawline,=decodedline,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=aranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=loc,=Ranges]]
[@option{-I}|@option{-histogram}]
[@option{-v}|@option{--version}]
[@option{-W}|@option{--wide}]
of binary archives. Performs the same function as the @option{t}
command to @command{ar}, but without using the BFD library. @xref{ar}.
-@item -w[liaprmfFsoR]
-@itemx --debug-dump[=line,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=aranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=loc,=Ranges]
+@item -w[lLiaprmfFsoR]
+@itemx --debug-dump[=rawline,=decodedline,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=aranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=loc,=Ranges]
Displays the contents of the debug sections in the file, if any are
present. If one of the optional letters or words follows the switch
then only data found in those specific sections will be dumped.
+Note: the @option{=decodedline} option will display the interpreted
+contents of a .debug_line section whereas the @option{=rawline} option
+dumps the contents in a raw format.
+
@item -I
@itemx --histogram
Display a histogram of bucket list lengths when displaying the contents
@end table
@c man end
-@node Selecting The Target System
+@node Selecting the Target System
@chapter Selecting the Target System
You can specify two aspects of the target system to the @sc{gnu}
things without first using the debugger to find the facts.
@end itemize
+@node GNU Free Documentation License
+@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
+
@include fdl.texi
@node Binutils Index
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