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The GNU Binary Utilities, or binutils, is a collection of programming tools for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. The current versions were originally written by programmers at Cygnus Solutions using the BFD library. They are typically used in conjunction with GCC, make and GDB. The binutils include the following commands: addr2line - convert address to file and linec++filt - demangling filter for C++ symbolsnm - list symbols in object filesobjcopy - copy object files, possibly making changesobjdump - dump information about object filesranlib - generate indexes for archivesreadelf - display content of ELF filessize - list total and section sizesstrings - list printable stringsstrip - remove symbols from an object filegprof - ProfilerOriginally the package consisted of only the minor utilities, but later the GNU Assembler (GAS) and GNU Linker (GLD) were included in releases, since their functionality is so closely related. Most of the binutils are rather simple programs. Most of the complexity is encapsulated in the BFD and libopcodes libraries that they share. The original BFD versions were written by David Henkel-Wallace and Steve Chamberlain. Past maintainers have included Ken Raeburn and Ian Lance Taylor. As of 2005 the current maintainer is Nick Clifton.
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