@ifinfo
@format
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
-* Binutils: (binutils). The GNU binary utilities "ar", "objcopy",
- "objdump", "nm", "nlmconv", "size", "readelf"
- "strings", "strip", "ranlib" and "dlltool".
+* Binutils: (binutils). The GNU binary utilities.
+* ar: (binutils)ar. Create, modify, and extract from archives
+* nm: (binutils)nm. List symbols from object files
+* objcopy: (binutils)objcopy. Copy and translate object files
+* objdump: (binutils)objdump. Display information from object files
+* ranlib: (binutils)ranlib. Generate index to archive contents
+* readelf: (binutils)readelf. Display the contents of ELF format files.
+* size: (binutils)size. List section sizes and total size
+* strings: (binutils)strings. List printable strings from files
+* strip: (binutils)strip. Discard symbols
+* c++filt: (binutils)c++filt. Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols
+* cxxfilt: (binutils)c++filt. MS-DOS name for c++filt
+* addr2line: (binutils)addr2line. Convert addresses to file and line
+* nlmconv: (binutils)nlmconv. Converts object code into an NLM
+* windres: (binutils)windres. Manipulate Windows resources
+* dlltool: (binutils)dlltool. Create files needed to build and use DLLs
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
@end format
@end ifinfo
@cindex archives
@cindex collections of files
@smallexample
-ar [-]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}]] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
+ar [-]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}] [@var{count}]] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
ar -M [ <mri-script ]
@end smallexample
@section Controlling @code{ar} on the command line
@smallexample
-ar [-]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}]] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
+ar [-]@var{p}[@var{mod} [@var{relpos}] [@var{count}]] @var{archive} [@var{member}@dots{}]
@end smallexample
@cindex Unix compatibility, @code{ar}
@c whaffor ar l modifier??? presumably compat; with
@c what???---doc@@cygnus.com, 25jan91
+@item N
+Uses the @var{count} parameter. This is used if there are multiple
+entries in the archive with the same name. Extract or delete instance
+@var{count} of the given name from the archive.
+
@item o
@cindex dates in archive
Preserve the @emph{original} dates of members when extracting them. If
you do not specify this modifier, files extracted from the archive
are stamped with the time of extraction.
+@item P
+Use the full path name when matching names in the archive. @sc{gnu}
+@code{ar} can not create an archive with a full path name (such archives
+are not POSIX complaint), but other archive creators can. This option
+will cause @sc{gnu} @code{ar} to match file names using a complete path
+name, which can be convenient when extracting a single file from an
+archive created by another tool.
+
@item s
@cindex writing archive index
Write an object-file index into the archive, or update an existing one,
@item --set-section-flags @var{section}=@var{flags}
Set the flags for the named section. The @var{flags} argument is a
comma separated string of flag names. The recognized names are
-@samp{alloc}, @samp{contents}, @samp{load}, @samp{readonly},
-@samp{code}, @samp{data}, and @samp{rom}. You can set the
-@samp{contents} flag for a section which does not have contents, but it
-is not meaningful to clear the @samp{contents} flag of a section which
-does have contents--just remove the section instead. Not all flags are
-meaningful for all object file formats.
+@samp{alloc}, @samp{contents}, @samp{load}, @samp{noload},
+@samp{readonly}, @samp{code}, @samp{data}, @samp{rom}, @samp{share}, and
+@samp{debug}. You can set the @samp{contents} flag for a section which
+does not have contents, but it is not meaningful to clear the
+@samp{contents} flag of a section which does have contents--just remove
+the section instead. Not all flags are meaningful for all object file
+formats.
@item --add-section @var{sectionname}=@var{filename}
Add a new section named @var{sectionname} while copying the file. The
files named in the @code{rc} file.
@item -D @var{target}
-@itemx --define @var{sym[=val]}
+@itemx --define @var{sym}[=@var{val}]
Specify a @code{-D} option to pass to the preprocessor when reading an
@code{rc} file.
[ -S | --section-headers | --sections]
[ -e | --headers]
[ -s | --syms | --symbols]
+ [ -n | --notes]
[ -r | --relocs]
[ -d | --dynamic]
[ -V | --version-info]
@itemx --all
Equivalent to specifiying @samp{--file-header},
@samp{--program-headers}, @samp{--sections}, @samp{--symbols},
-@samp{--relocs}, @samp{--dynamic} and @samp{--version-info}.
+@samp{--relocs}, @samp{--dynamic}, @samp{--notes} and
+@samp{--version-info}.
@item -h
@itemx --file-header
@itemx --headers
Display all the headers in the file. Equivalent to @samp{-h -l -S}.
+@item -n
+@itemx --notes
+@cindex ELF core notes
+Displays the contents of the NOTE segment, if it exists.
+
@item -r
@itemx --relocs
@cindex ELF reloc information
A complete input file, or set of input files, that will reproduce the
bug. If the utility is reading an object file or files, then it is
generally most helpful to send the actual object files, uuencoded if
-necessary to get them through the mail system. Making them available
-for anonymous FTP is not as good, but may be the only reasonable choice
-for large object files.
+necessary to get them through the mail system. Note that
+@samp{bug-gnu-utils@@gnu.org} is a mailing list, so you should avoid
+sending very large files to it. Making the files available for
+anonymous FTP is OK.
If the source files were produced exclusively using @sc{gnu} programs
(e.g., @code{gcc}, @code{gas}, and/or the @sc{gnu} @code{ld}), then it
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