Programs Included in Binutils


Tool-chain proper commands
as
ld

Maintainance commands
strip
objcopy

Information retrivial commands
objdump, nm
size, strings

Most of the information is abstracted to libbfd
The library offers An API to read/write an object file
You can create a multi-platform objcopy
Some distributions offer "binutils-multiarch"
It lacks AVR or LM32 support, but most CPU families are there