Other tools in the toolchain

The following table shows various other commands in the toolchain together with a brief description:

Command	Description
addr2line	Converts program addresses into filenames and numbers by reading the debug symbol tables in an executable file. It is very useful when decoding addresses printed out in a system crash report.
ar	The archive utility is used to create static libraries.
as	This is the GNU assembler.
c++filt	This is used to demangle C++ and Java symbols.
cpp	This is the C preprocessor, and is used to expand #define, #include, and other similar directives. You seldom need to use this by itself.
elfedit	This is used to update the ELF header of ELF files.
g++	This is the GNU C++ front-end, which assumes source files contain C++ code.
gcc	This is the GNU C front-end, which assumes source files contain C code.
gcov	This is a code coverage tool.
gdb	This is the GNU debugger.
gprof	This is a program profiling tool.
ld	This is the GNU...