Just to give you some context, here's what I'm trying to achieve: I am embedding a const char* in a shared object file in order to have a version string in the .so file itself. I am doing data anal...

Suppose we have a shared library named libtest.so, there is one function "foo" in it use the strip to discards all symbols from libtest.so $strip libtest.so so ,now if we use: $nm libtest.so ...

The nm the utility to list symbols in a binary doesn't include in its documentation any explanation or clue of how it got to be named nm. I imagine some of the long experienced UNIX developers can...

I built a dynamic lib called InterfaceLayer.so. When I call: > nm InterfaceLayer As output, I get some symbols that look like: 00000e28 T _Z5startv while I was expecting it to be "start&q...

I would like to examine object files on Windows similar to the Linux tool nm. Is this possible?