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authorJeffrey Osier <jeffrey@cygnus>1993-06-03 01:31:51 +0000
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* c++filt.1, objcopy.1: new man pages
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+Wed Jun 2 18:30:24 1993 Jeffrey Osier (jeffrey@cygnus.com)
+
+ * c++filt.1, objcopy.1: new man pages
+
+Fri May 28 15:01:24 1993 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
+
+ * Makefile.in (install): Also install ar and ranlib in
+ $(tooldir)/bin; needed for building libgcc.a.
+ * objdump.c (objdump_print_address): Fix the check
+ "coincidental" label matches by dis-allowing undefined
+ or com symbols.
+
Thu May 27 16:58:31 1993 Jeffrey Osier (jeffrey@cygnus.com)
* biutils.texi: revised c++filt chapter
diff --git a/binutils/c++filt.1 b/binutils/c++filt.1
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
+.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
+.TH c++filt 1 "June 1993" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
+.de BP
+.sp
+.ti \-.2i
+\(**
+..
+
+.SH NAME
+c++filt\(em\&demangles C++ symbols
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B c++filt
+[
+.B -_
+]
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that you can
+write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters
+of different types). All C++ function names are encoded into a
+low-level assembly label (in some circles this is described as
+@dfn{mangling}). The
+.B c++filt
+program does the inverse mapping: it decodes (\fIdemangles\fR)
+low-level names into user-level names so that the linker can keep
+these overloaded functions from clashing.
+
+Every alphanumeric word (consisting of letters, digits, underscores,
+dollars, or periods) seen in the input is a potential label. If the
+label decodes into a C++ name, the C++ name replaces the low-level
+name in the output.
+
+A typical use of
+.B c++filt
+is to pipe the output of
+.B nm
+though it, using
+.B c++filt
+as a filter:
+.RS
+.B nm \fIobjfile\fB | c++filt
+.RE
+
+You can also use
+.B c++filt
+to decipher individual symbols by specifying these symbols on the
+command line.
+
+All results are printed on the standard output.
+
+Note that on some systems, both the C and C++ compilers put an
+underscore in front of every name. (I.e. the C name
+.B foo
+gets the low-level name
+.BR _foo .)
+To remove the leading underscore, specify the option
+.B -_
+on the command line.
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
+entry in
+.B
+info\c
+\&;
+.I
+The GNU Binary Utilities\c
+\&, Roland H. Pesch (June 1993).
+
+.SH COPYING
+Copyright (c) 1993 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
+translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
+the original English.
diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.1 b/binutils/objcopy.1
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
+.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
+.TH objcopy 1 "June 1993" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
+.de BP
+.sp
+.ti \-.2i
+\(**
+..
+
+.SH NAME
+objcopy\(em\&copies and translates object files
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.hy 0
+.na
+.B objcopy
+.RS
+[
+.B -F \fIformat\fB | --format=\fIformat\fB
+]
+.br
+[
+.B -I \fIformat\fB | --input-format=\fIformat\fB
+]
+.br
+[
+.B -O \fIformat\fB | --output-format=\fIformat\fB
+]
+.br
+[
+.B -S | --strip-all
+] [
+.B -g | --strip-debug
+]
+.br
+[
+.B -x | --discard-all
+] [
+.B -X | --discard-locals
+]
+.br
+[
+.B -v | --verbose
+] [
+.B -V | --version
+]
+.br
+.I infile
+[
+.I outfile
+]
+.RE
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The GNU
+.B objcopy
+utility copies the contents of an object file to another.
+.B objcopy
+uses the GNU BFD Library to read and write the object files. It can
+write the destination object file in a format different from that of
+the source object file. The exact behavior of
+.B objcopy
+is controlled by command-line options.
+
+.B objcopy
+creates temporary files to do its translations and deletes them
+afterward.
+.B objcopy
+uses BFD to do all its translation work; it knows about all the
+formats BFD knows about, and thus is able to recognize most formats
+without being told explicitly.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP 0.5i
+.I infile\fR,\fI outfile
+The source and output files respectively. If you do not specify
+.IR outfile ,
+.B objcopy
+creates a temporary file and destructively renames the result with the
+name of the input file.
+.TP
+.B -I \fIformat\fB, --input-format=\fIformat\fB
+Consider the source file's object format to be
+.IR format ,
+rather than attempting to deduce it.
+.TP
+.B -O \fIformat\fB, --output-format=\fIformat\fB
+Write the output file using the object format
+.IR format .
+.TP
+.B -F \fIformat\fB, --format=\fIformat\fB
+Use
+.I format
+as the object format for both the input and the output file; i.e.
+simply transfer data from source to destination with no translation.
+.TP
+.B -S, --strip-all
+Do not copy relocation and symbol information from the source file.
+.TP
+.B -g, --strip-debug
+Do not copy debugging symbols from the source file.
+.TP
+.B -x, --discard-all
+Do not copy non-global symbols from the source file.
+.TP
+.B -X, --discard-locals
+Do not copy compiler-generated local symbols. (These usually start
+with "L" or ".").
+.TP
+.B -v, --verbose
+Verbose output: list all object files modified. In the case of
+archives, "\fBobjcopy -V\fR" lists all members of the archive.
+.TP
+.B -V, --version
+Show the version number of
+.BR objcopy .
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
+entry in
+.B
+info\c
+\&;
+.I
+The GNU Binary Utilities\c
+\&, Roland H. Pesch (June 1993).
+
+.SH COPYING
+Copyright (c) 1993 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
+translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
+the original English.