cross-ppc-binutils

Description

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including:

• ar: creating modifying and extracting from archives
• nm: for listing symbols from object files
• objcopy: for copying and translating object files
• objdump: for displaying information from object files
• ranlib: for generating an index for the contents of an archive
• size: for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file
• strings: for listing printable strings from files
• strip: for discarding symbols (a filter for demangling encoded C++ symbols
• addr2line: for converting addresses to file and line
• nlmconv: for converting object code into an NLM

Install binutils if you need to perform any of these types of actions on binary files. Most programmers will want to install binutils.

Application availability

This application is available from the following Mandriva media:

2008.0 i586 contrib-release - View package information

2008.0 x86_64 contrib-release - View package information

cooker i586 contrib-release - View package information

cooker x86_64 contrib-release - View package information