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Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), 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), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
This package provides the GOLD linker, which can be used as an alternative to the default binutils linker (ld.bfd). The GOLD is generally faster than the BFD linker, and it supports features such as Identical Code Folding and Incremental linking. Unfortunately it is not as well maintained as the BFD linker, and it may become deprecated in the future. BuildRequires: bison, m4, gcc-c++ BuildRequires: libstdc++-static BuildRequires: gcc-c++ Conflicts: gcc-c++ < 4.0.0
This package provides the GOLD linker, which can be used as an alternative to the default binutils linker (ld.bfd). The GOLD is generally faster than the BFD linker, and it supports features such as Identical Code Folding and Incremental linking. Unfortunately it is not as well maintained as the BFD linker, and it may become deprecated in the future.
Binwalk is a tool for searching a given binary image for embedded files and executable code. Specifically, it is designed for identifying files and code embedded inside of firmware images. Binwalk uses the python-magic library, so it is compatible with magic signatures created for the Unix file utility.
biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is "Gb1") doesn't map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0).
Bison is a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so any correctly written Yacc grammar should work with Bison without any changes. If you know Yacc, you shouldn't have any trouble using Bison. You do need to be very proficient in C programming to be able to use Bison. Bison is only needed on systems that are used for development. If your system will be used for C development, you should install Bison.