Basics of the MKS Toolkit - Mks.com

Programming
Examining Symbol Tables
Miscellaneous Commands
The nm command displays the symbol table in compiled code. The file
being examined must have the extension .obj (indicating an object
file), .lib (indicating a library), or .exe (indicating an executable
file). An executable file must contain a symbol table such as the one
put out by CodeView.
The format of the nm command is
nm files...
The output lists the names found in the symbol table. Each name is
preceded by a flag letter which indicates the type of the symbol. For
example, initialized global data names are marked with a D while
uninitialized ones are marked with a B. The complete list of flag
letters is given in the description of nm in the MKS Toolkit Utilities
Reference.
The size command lets you determine the size of various parts of an
object module, library, or executable file. Its format is simply
size file
The od command can dump the contents of a file in several different
formats.
od file
dumps a file in octal.
od -h file
dumps the file in hexadecimal. Both of these may be useful if you
want to check on the actual contents of a non-text file. Other output
formats are available; see the od online reference page in the MKS
Toolkit Utilities Reference.
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