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.\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.\" $Id$
.TH nm 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
.de BP
.sp
.ti \-.2i
\(**
..

.SH NAME
nm\(em\&list symbols from object files.

.SH SYNOPSIS
.hy 0
.na
.TP
.B nm
.RB "[\|" \-a | +debug-syms "\|]" 
.RB "[\|" \-g | +extern-only "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-s | +print-armap "\|]" 
.RB "[\|" \-o | +print-file-name "\|]"  
.RB "[\|" \-n | +numeric-sort "\|]" 
.RB "[\|" \-p | +no-sort "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-r | +reverse-sort "\|]" 
.RB "[\|" \-u | +undefined-only "\|]"  
.RB "[\|" "+target\ "\c
.I bfdname\c
\&\|]
.RB "[\|" \c
.I objfiles\c
\&.\|.\|.\|]
.ad b
.hy 1
.SH DESCRIPTION
GNU \c
.B nm\c
\& will list the symbols from object files \c
.I objfiles\c
\&.

.SH OPTIONS
The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
equivalent.

.TP
.IR "objfiles" .\|.\|.
Object files whose symbols are to be listed.  If no object files are
listed as arguments, \c
.B nm\c
\& assumes `\|\c
.B a.out\c
\|'.

.TP
.B \-a
.TP
.B +debug-syms 
Display debugger-only symbols; normally these are not listed.

.TP
.B \-g
.TP
.B +extern-only 
Display only external symbols.

.TP
.B \-p
.TP
.B +no-sort 
Don't bother to sort the symbols in any order; just print them in the
order encountered.

.TP
.B \-n
.TP
.B +numeric-sort 
Sort symbols numerically by their addresses, not alphabetically by their
names. 

.TP
.B \-s
.TP
.B +print-armap
When listing symbols from archive members, include the index: a mapping
(stored in the archive by \c
.B ar\c
\& or \c
.B ranlib\c
\&) of what modules
contain definitions for what names.

.TP
.B \-o
.TP
.B +print-file-name 
Precede each symbol by the name of the input file where it was found,
rather than identifying the input file once only before all of its
symbols. 

.TP
.B \-r
.TP
.B +reverse-sort 
Reverse the sense of the sort (whether numeric or alphabetic); let the
last come first.

.TP
.BI "+target " "bfdname"\c
\&
Specify an object code format other than your system's default format.
See 
.BR objdump ( 1 ),
for information on listing available formats.

.TP
.B \-u
.TP
.B +undefined-only 
Display only undefined symbols (those external to each object file).

.PP

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
entry in 
.B
info\c
\&; 
.I
The GNU Binary Utilities\c
\&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991);
.BR ar "(" 1 "),"
.BR objdump ( 1 ),
.BR ranlib "(" 1 ")."


.SH COPYING
Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
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the original English.