Binutils

• Binutils is a set of tools to generate and manipulate binaries for a given CPU architecture

• • as, the assembler, that generates binary code from assembler source code
  • ld, the linker
  • ar, ranlib, to generate .a archives, used for libraries
  • objdump, readelf, size, nm, strings, to inspect binaries. Very useful analysis tools !
  • strip, to strip useless parts of binaries in order to reduce their size

• http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/

• GPL license