The Elf Tool Chain Project

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Native BSD implementations of essential tools.

Tool	Description	Status	Owner	Comments
ar	Archiver		kaiw	(Soc07 project)
as	Assembler			Needs to support all Tier-1/2 CPUs: i386, amd64, sparc64, arm, powerpc, ia64, mips
elfdump	Diagnostic tool	[http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-03/msg00419.html Patch]	kaiw	Architecture independent.
ld	Link editor			Needs to support all Tier-1/2 CPUs.
nm	List symbols		hglee
ranlib	Generate archive index.		kaiw	(Soc07 project)
size	List object sizes.	[http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-03/msg00549.html Patch]	samarunraj
strings	Extract printable strings.		samarunraj
strip	Discard symbols from objects.		kaiw	(Soc07 project)

Tool	Description	Owner	Comments
addr2line	Debug tool
objcopy	Copy and translate between formats.	kaiw	Used by the ia64 build. (Soc07 project)
objdump	Display object information.		Merge with elfdump? Used by the ia64 build
readelf	Display ELF information.	samarunraj	Merge with elfdump?)

API Set	Description	Status	Owner	Repository Location	Comments
libdwarf	A library for parsing [http://dwarf.freestandards.org/ DWARF] debug information.				“pfgshield-freebsd” (email suppressed) notes that early versions of [http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/dwarf.html SGI's libdwarf library] were released under a non-GPL'ed license.
“libmachinecode”	Machine/assembly code manipulation.				For use in an optimizing linker, see the NJ Toolkit below.