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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "x86_64-linux-gnu-nm",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/x86_64-linux-gnu-nm/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-05-30T05:15:35Z",
    "synopsis": "nm [-A|-o|--print-file-name]\n[-a|--debug-syms]\n[-B|--format=bsd]\n[-C|--demangle[=style]]\n[-D|--dynamic]\n[-fformat|--format=format]\n[-g|--extern-only]\n[-h|--help]\n[--ifunc-chars=CHARS]\n[-j|--format=just-symbols]\n[-l|--line-numbers] [--inlines]\n[-n|-v|--numeric-sort]\n[-P|--portability]\n[-p|--no-sort]\n[-r|--reverse-sort]\n[-S|--print-size]\n[-s|--print-armap]\n[-t radix|--radix=radix]\n[-u|--undefined-only]\n[-U method] [--unicode=method]\n[-V|--version]\n[-X 3264]\n[--defined-only]\n[--no-demangle]\n[--no-recurse-limit|--recurse-limit]]\n[--plugin name]\n[--size-sort]\n[--special-syms]\n[--synthetic]\n[--target=bfdname]\n[--with-symbol-versions]\n[--without-symbol-versions]\n[objfile...]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "nm - list symbols from object files\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "nm [-A|-o|--print-file-name]\n[-a|--debug-syms]\n[-B|--format=bsd]\n[-C|--demangle[=style]]\n[-D|--dynamic]\n[-fformat|--format=format]\n[-g|--extern-only]\n[-h|--help]\n[--ifunc-chars=CHARS]\n[-j|--format=just-symbols]\n[-l|--line-numbers] [--inlines]\n[-n|-v|--numeric-sort]\n[-P|--portability]\n[-p|--no-sort]\n[-r|--reverse-sort]\n[-S|--print-size]\n[-s|--print-armap]\n[-t radix|--radix=radix]\n[-u|--undefined-only]\n[-U method] [--unicode=method]\n[-V|--version]\n[-X 3264]\n[--defined-only]\n[--no-demangle]\n[--no-recurse-limit|--recurse-limit]]\n[--plugin name]\n[--size-sort]\n[--special-syms]\n[--synthetic]\n[--target=bfdname]\n[--with-symbol-versions]\n[--without-symbol-versions]\n[objfile...]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "GNU nm lists the symbols from object files objfile....  If no object files are listed as\narguments, nm assumes the file a.out.\n\nFor each symbol, nm shows:\n\n•   The symbol value, in the radix selected by options (see below), or hexadecimal by\ndefault.\n\n•   The symbol type.  At least the following types are used; others are, as well, depending\non the object file format.  If lowercase, the symbol is usually local; if uppercase, the\nsymbol is global (external).  There are however a few lowercase symbols that are shown\nfor special global symbols (\"u\", \"v\" and \"w\").\n\n\"A\" The symbol's value is absolute, and will not be changed by further linking.\n\n\"B\"\n\"b\" The symbol is in the BSS data section.  This section typically contains zero-\ninitialized or uninitialized data, although the exact behavior is system dependent.\n\n\"C\"\n\"c\" The symbol is common.  Common symbols are uninitialized data.  When linking, multiple\ncommon symbols may appear with the same name.  If the symbol is defined anywhere, the\ncommon symbols are treated as undefined references.  The lower case c character is\nused when the symbol is in a special section for small commons.\n\n\"D\"\n\"d\" The symbol is in the initialized data section.\n\n\"G\"\n\"g\" The symbol is in an initialized data section for small objects.  Some object file\nformats permit more efficient access to small data objects, such as a global int\nvariable as opposed to a large global array.\n\n\"i\" For PE format files this indicates that the symbol is in a section specific to the\nimplementation of DLLs.\n\nFor ELF format files this indicates that the symbol is an indirect function.  This is\na GNU extension to the standard set of ELF symbol types.  It indicates a symbol which\nif referenced by a relocation does not evaluate to its address, but instead must be\ninvoked at runtime.  The runtime execution will then return the value to be used in\nthe relocation.\n\nNote - the actual symbols display for GNU indirect symbols is controlled by the\n--ifunc-chars command line option.  If this option has been provided then the first\ncharacter in the string will be used for global indirect function symbols.  If the\nstring contains a second character then that will be used for local indirect function\nsymbols.\n\n\"I\" The symbol is an indirect reference to another symbol.\n\n\"N\" The symbol is a debugging symbol.\n\n\"n\" The symbol is in the read-only data section.\n\n\"p\" The symbol is in a stack unwind section.\n\n\"R\"\n\"r\" The symbol is in a read only data section.\n\n\"S\"\n\"s\" The symbol is in an uninitialized or zero-initialized data section for small objects.\n\n\"T\"\n\"t\" The symbol is in the text (code) section.\n\n\"U\" The symbol is undefined.\n\n\"u\" The symbol is a unique global symbol.  This is a GNU extension to the standard set of\nELF symbol bindings.  For such a symbol the dynamic linker will make sure that in the\nentire process there is just one symbol with this name and type in use.\n\n\"V\"\n\"v\" The symbol is a weak object.  When a weak defined symbol is linked with a normal\ndefined symbol, the normal defined symbol is used with no error.  When a weak\nundefined symbol is linked and the symbol is not defined, the value of the weak\nsymbol becomes zero with no error.  On some systems, uppercase indicates that a\ndefault value has been specified.\n\n\"W\"\n\"w\" The symbol is a weak symbol that has not been specifically tagged as a weak object\nsymbol.  When a weak defined symbol is linked with a normal defined symbol, the\nnormal defined symbol is used with no error.  When a weak undefined symbol is linked\nand the symbol is not defined, the value of the symbol is determined in a system-\nspecific manner without error.  On some systems, uppercase indicates that a default\nvalue has been specified.\n\n\"-\" The symbol is a stabs symbol in an a.out object file.  In this case, the next values\nprinted are the stabs other field, the stabs desc field, and the stab type.  Stabs\nsymbols are used to hold debugging information.\n\n\"?\" The symbol type is unknown, or object file format specific.\n\n•   The symbol name.  If a symbol has version information associated with it, then the\nversion information is displayed as well.  If the versioned symbol is undefined or hidden\nfrom linker, the version string is displayed as a suffix to the symbol name, preceded by\nan @ character.  For example foo@VER1.  If the version is the default version to be used\nwhen resolving unversioned references to the symbol, then it is displayed as a suffix\npreceded by two @ characters.  For example foo@@VER2.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are equivalent.\n",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "-A",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-A"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-o",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-o"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--print-file-name",
                    "content": "Precede each symbol by the name of the input file (or archive member) in which it was\nfound, rather than identifying the input file once only, before all of its symbols.\n",
                    "long": "--print-file-name"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-a",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-a"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--debug-syms",
                    "content": "Display all symbols, even debugger-only symbols; normally these are not listed.\n",
                    "long": "--debug-syms"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-B --format=bsd",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-B",
                    "long": "--format",
                    "arg": "bsd"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-C",
                    "content": "--demangle[=style]\nDecode (demangle) low-level symbol names into user-level names.  Besides removing any\ninitial underscore prepended by the system, this makes C++ function names readable.\nDifferent compilers have different mangling styles. The optional demangling style\nargument can be used to choose an appropriate demangling style for your compiler.\n",
                    "flag": "-C"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-demangle",
                    "content": "Do not demangle low-level symbol names.  This is the default.\n",
                    "long": "--no-demangle"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--recurse-limit",
                    "content": "",
                    "long": "--recurse-limit"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-recurse-limit",
                    "content": "",
                    "long": "--no-recurse-limit"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--recursion-limit",
                    "content": "",
                    "long": "--recursion-limit"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-recursion-limit",
                    "content": "Enables or disables a limit on the amount of recursion performed whilst demangling\nstrings.  Since the name mangling formats allow for an infinite level of recursion it is\npossible to create strings whose decoding will exhaust the amount of stack space\navailable on the host machine, triggering a memory fault.  The limit tries to prevent\nthis from happening by restricting recursion to 2048 levels of nesting.\n\nThe default is for this limit to be enabled, but disabling it may be necessary in order\nto demangle truly complicated names.  Note however that if the recursion limit is\ndisabled then stack exhaustion is possible and any bug reports about such an event will\nbe rejected.\n",
                    "long": "--no-recursion-limit"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-D",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-D"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--dynamic",
                    "content": "Display the dynamic symbols rather than the normal symbols.  This is only meaningful for\ndynamic objects, such as certain types of shared libraries.\n",
                    "long": "--dynamic"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-f",
                    "content": "--format=format\nUse the output format format, which can be \"bsd\", \"sysv\", \"posix\" or \"just-symbols\".  The\ndefault is \"bsd\".  Only the first character of format is significant; it can be either\nupper or lower case.\n",
                    "flag": "-f"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-g",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-g"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--extern-only",
                    "content": "Display only external symbols.\n",
                    "long": "--extern-only"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-h",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-h"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--help",
                    "content": "Show a summary of the options to nm and exit.\n\n--ifunc-chars=CHARS\nWhen display GNU indirect function symbols nm will default to using the \"i\" character for\nboth local indirect functions and global indirect functions.  The --ifunc-chars option\nallows the user to specify a string containing one or two characters. The first character\nwill be used for global indirect function symbols and the second character, if present,\nwill be used for local indirect function symbols.\n\nj   The same as --format=just-symbols.\n",
                    "long": "--help"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-l",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-l"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--line-numbers",
                    "content": "For each symbol, use debugging information to try to find a filename and line number.\nFor a defined symbol, look for the line number of the address of the symbol.  For an\nundefined symbol, look for the line number of a relocation entry which refers to the\nsymbol.  If line number information can be found, print it after the other symbol\ninformation.\n",
                    "long": "--line-numbers"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--inlines",
                    "content": "When option -l is active, if the address belongs to a function that was inlined, then\nthis option causes the source information for all enclosing scopes back to the first non-\ninlined function to be printed as well.  For example, if \"main\" inlines \"callee1\" which\ninlines \"callee2\", and address is from \"callee2\", the source information for \"callee1\"\nand \"main\" will also be printed.\n",
                    "long": "--inlines"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-n",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-v",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-v"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--numeric-sort",
                    "content": "Sort symbols numerically by their addresses, rather than alphabetically by their names.\n",
                    "long": "--numeric-sort"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-p",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-p"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-sort",
                    "content": "Do not bother to sort the symbols in any order; print them in the order encountered.\n",
                    "long": "--no-sort"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-P",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-P"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--portability",
                    "content": "Use the POSIX.2 standard output format instead of the default format.  Equivalent to -f\nposix.\n",
                    "long": "--portability"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-r",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-r"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--reverse-sort",
                    "content": "Reverse the order of the sort (whether numeric or alphabetic); let the last come first.\n",
                    "long": "--reverse-sort"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-S",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-S"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--print-size",
                    "content": "Print both value and size of defined symbols for the \"bsd\" output style.  This option has\nno effect for object formats that do not record symbol sizes, unless --size-sort is also\nused in which case a calculated size is displayed.\n",
                    "long": "--print-size"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-s",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-s"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--print-armap",
                    "content": "When listing symbols from archive members, include the index: a mapping (stored in the\narchive by ar or ranlib) of which modules contain definitions for which names.\n",
                    "long": "--print-armap"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-t",
                    "content": "--radix=radix\nUse radix as the radix for printing the symbol values.  It must be d for decimal, o for\noctal, or x for hexadecimal.\n",
                    "flag": "-t"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-u",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-u"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--undefined-only",
                    "content": "Display only undefined symbols (those external to each object file).\n",
                    "long": "--undefined-only"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-U",
                    "content": "--unicode=[default|invalid|locale|escape|hex|highlight]\nControls the display of UTF-8 encoded multibyte characters in strings.  The default\n(--unicode=default) is to give them no special treatment.  The --unicode=locale option\ndisplays the sequence in the current locale, which may or may not support them.  The\noptions --unicode=hex and --unicode=invalid display them as hex byte sequences enclosed\nby either angle brackets or curly braces.\n\nThe --unicode=escape option displays them as escape sequences (\\uxxxx) and the\n--unicode=highlight option displays them as escape sequences highlighted in red (if\nsupported by the output device).  The colouring is intended to draw attention to the\npresence of unicode sequences where they might not be expected.\n",
                    "flag": "-U"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-V",
                    "content": "",
                    "flag": "-V"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--version",
                    "content": "Show the version number of nm and exit.\n",
                    "long": "--version"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-X",
                    "content": "parameter which must be the string 3264.  The default mode of AIX nm corresponds to -X\n32, which is not supported by GNU nm.\n",
                    "flag": "-X"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--defined-only",
                    "content": "Display only defined symbols for each object file.\n\n--plugin name\nLoad the plugin called name to add support for extra target types.  This option is only\navailable if the toolchain has been built with plugin support enabled.\n\nIf --plugin is not provided, but plugin support has been enabled then nm iterates over\nthe files in ${libdir}/bfd-plugins in alphabetic order and the first plugin that claims\nthe object in question is used.\n\nPlease note that this plugin search directory is not the one used by ld's -plugin option.\nIn order to make nm use the  linker plugin it must be copied into the\n${libdir}/bfd-plugins directory.  For GCC based compilations the linker plugin is called\nlibltoplugin.so.0.0.0.  For Clang based compilations it is called LLVMgold.so.  The GCC\nplugin is always backwards compatible with earlier versions, so it is sufficient to just\ncopy the newest one.\n",
                    "long": "--defined-only"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--size-sort",
                    "content": "Sort symbols by size.  For ELF objects symbol sizes are read from the ELF, for other\nobject types the symbol sizes are computed as the difference between the value of the\nsymbol and the value of the symbol with the next higher value.  If the \"bsd\" output\nformat is used the size of the symbol is printed, rather than the value, and -S must be\nused in order both size and value to be printed.\n",
                    "long": "--size-sort"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--special-syms",
                    "content": "Display symbols which have a target-specific special meaning.  These symbols are usually\nused by the target for some special processing and are not normally helpful when included\nin the normal symbol lists.  For example for ARM targets this option would skip the\nmapping symbols used to mark transitions between ARM code, THUMB code and data.\n",
                    "long": "--special-syms"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--synthetic",
                    "content": "Include synthetic symbols in the output.  These are special symbols created by the linker\nfor various purposes.  They are not shown by default since they are not part of the\nbinary's original source code.\n",
                    "long": "--synthetic"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--with-symbol-versions",
                    "content": "",
                    "long": "--with-symbol-versions"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--without-symbol-versions",
                    "content": "Enables or disables the display of symbol version information.  The version string is\ndisplayed as a suffix to the symbol name, preceded by an @ character.  For example\nfoo@VER1.  If the version is the default version to be used when resolving unversioned\nreferences to the symbol then it is displayed as a suffix preceded by two @ characters.\nFor example foo@@VER2.  By default, symbol version information is displayed.\n\n--target=bfdname\nSpecify an object code format other than your system's default format.\n\n@file\nRead command-line options from file.  The options read are inserted in place of the\noriginal @file option.  If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will\nbe treated literally, and not removed.\n\nOptions in file are separated by whitespace.  A whitespace character may be included in\nan option by surrounding the entire option in either single or double quotes.  Any\ncharacter (including a backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be\nincluded with a backslash.  The file may itself contain additional @file options; any\nsuch options will be processed recursively.\n",
                    "long": "--without-symbol-versions"
                }
            ]
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "ar(1), objdump(1), ranlib(1), and the Info entries for binutils.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COPYRIGHT": {
            "content": "Copyright (c) 1991-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n\nPermission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the\nGNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free\nSoftware Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-\nCover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled \"GNU Free\nDocumentation License\".\n\n\n\nbinutils-2.38                                2025-12-03                                        NM(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "nm - list symbols from object files",
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            "flag": "-A",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "-o",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--print-file-name",
            "arg": null,
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        {
            "flag": "-a",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
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        {
            "flag": "",
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            "arg": null,
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        {
            "flag": "-B",
            "long": "--format",
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        {
            "flag": "-C",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": "--demangle[=style] Decode (demangle) low-level symbol names into user-level names. Besides removing any initial underscore prepended by the system, this makes C++ function names readable. Different compilers have different mangling styles. The optional demangling style argument can be used to choose an appropriate demangling style for your compiler."
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--no-demangle",
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            "description": "Do not demangle low-level symbol names. This is the default."
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--recurse-limit",
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--no-recurse-limit",
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            "description": ""
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            "flag": "",
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        {
            "flag": "",
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            "arg": null,
            "description": "Enables or disables a limit on the amount of recursion performed whilst demangling strings. Since the name mangling formats allow for an infinite level of recursion it is possible to create strings whose decoding will exhaust the amount of stack space available on the host machine, triggering a memory fault. The limit tries to prevent this from happening by restricting recursion to 2048 levels of nesting. The default is for this limit to be enabled, but disabling it may be necessary in order to demangle truly complicated names. Note however that if the recursion limit is disabled then stack exhaustion is possible and any bug reports about such an event will be rejected."
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            "flag": "-g",
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            "arg": null,
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        {
            "flag": "",
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            "flag": "-h",
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            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--help",
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        {
            "flag": "-l",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
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            "flag": "",
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            "description": "For each symbol, use debugging information to try to find a filename and line number. For a defined symbol, look for the line number of the address of the symbol. For an undefined symbol, look for the line number of a relocation entry which refers to the symbol. If line number information can be found, print it after the other symbol information."
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--inlines",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "When option -l is active, if the address belongs to a function that was inlined, then this option causes the source information for all enclosing scopes back to the first non- inlined function to be printed as well. For example, if \"main\" inlines \"callee1\" which inlines \"callee2\", and address is from \"callee2\", the source information for \"callee1\" and \"main\" will also be printed."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-n",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
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        {
            "flag": "-v",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--numeric-sort",
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            "description": "Sort symbols numerically by their addresses, rather than alphabetically by their names."
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        {
            "flag": "-p",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--no-sort",
            "arg": null,
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        },
        {
            "flag": "-P",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--portability",
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        {
            "flag": "-r",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--reverse-sort",
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            "description": "Reverse the order of the sort (whether numeric or alphabetic); let the last come first."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-S",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--print-size",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Print both value and size of defined symbols for the \"bsd\" output style. This option has no effect for object formats that do not record symbol sizes, unless --size-sort is also used in which case a calculated size is displayed."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-s",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--print-armap",
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            "description": "When listing symbols from archive members, include the index: a mapping (stored in the archive by ar or ranlib) of which modules contain definitions for which names."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-t",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": "--radix=radix Use radix as the radix for printing the symbol values. It must be d for decimal, o for octal, or x for hexadecimal."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-u",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--undefined-only",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Display only undefined symbols (those external to each object file)."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-U",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": "--unicode=[default|invalid|locale|escape|hex|highlight] Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded multibyte characters in strings. The default (--unicode=default) is to give them no special treatment. The --unicode=locale option displays the sequence in the current locale, which may or may not support them. The options --unicode=hex and --unicode=invalid display them as hex byte sequences enclosed by either angle brackets or curly braces. The --unicode=escape option displays them as escape sequences (\\uxxxx) and the --unicode=highlight option displays them as escape sequences highlighted in red (if supported by the output device). The colouring is intended to draw attention to the presence of unicode sequences where they might not be expected."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-V",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--version",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Show the version number of nm and exit."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-X",
            "long": null,
            "arg": null,
            "description": "parameter which must be the string 3264. The default mode of AIX nm corresponds to -X 32, which is not supported by GNU nm."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--defined-only",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Display only defined symbols for each object file. --plugin name Load the plugin called name to add support for extra target types. This option is only available if the toolchain has been built with plugin support enabled. If --plugin is not provided, but plugin support has been enabled then nm iterates over the files in ${libdir}/bfd-plugins in alphabetic order and the first plugin that claims the object in question is used. Please note that this plugin search directory is not the one used by ld's -plugin option. In order to make nm use the linker plugin it must be copied into the ${libdir}/bfd-plugins directory. For GCC based compilations the linker plugin is called libltoplugin.so.0.0.0. For Clang based compilations it is called LLVMgold.so. The GCC plugin is always backwards compatible with earlier versions, so it is sufficient to just copy the newest one."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--size-sort",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Sort symbols by size. For ELF objects symbol sizes are read from the ELF, for other object types the symbol sizes are computed as the difference between the value of the symbol and the value of the symbol with the next higher value. If the \"bsd\" output format is used the size of the symbol is printed, rather than the value, and -S must be used in order both size and value to be printed."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--special-syms",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Display symbols which have a target-specific special meaning. These symbols are usually used by the target for some special processing and are not normally helpful when included in the normal symbol lists. For example for ARM targets this option would skip the mapping symbols used to mark transitions between ARM code, THUMB code and data."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--synthetic",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Include synthetic symbols in the output. These are special symbols created by the linker for various purposes. They are not shown by default since they are not part of the binary's original source code."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--with-symbol-versions",
            "arg": null,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--without-symbol-versions",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Enables or disables the display of symbol version information. The version string is displayed as a suffix to the symbol name, preceded by an @ character. For example foo@VER1. If the version is the default version to be used when resolving unversioned references to the symbol then it is displayed as a suffix preceded by two @ characters. For example foo@@VER2. By default, symbol version information is displayed. --target=bfdname Specify an object code format other than your system's default format. @file Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted in place of the original @file option. If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not removed. Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace character may be included in an option by surrounding the entire option in either single or double quotes. Any character (including a backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be included with a backslash. The file may itself contain additional @file options; any such options will be processed recursively."
        }
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    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "ar",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ar/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "objdump",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/objdump/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "ranlib",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ranlib/1/json"
        }
    ]
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