Looking at the manuals, objdump and nm have overlapping features.
When would you use each one? What was the original purpose of each command?
Looking at the manuals, objdump and nm have overlapping features. When would you use
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Looking at the manuals, objdump and nm have overlapping features.
When would you use each one? What was the original purpose of each command?
They have no similar parameters.
nmlists file symbols, whileobjdumpcan show a lot of different information about files.objdumpcan shows symbols too, and it is explicitly noted in the manpage that “This is similar to the information provided by the nm program, although the display format is different.”