bsdtools is a set of 4.4BSD tools for working with a.out object files. The utilities in this distribution (ar, ld, nm, ranlib, size, strings, and strip) are all taken, except in the case of ld, from final Berkeley CSRG releases. ld is not wholly original UCB material, but derives ultimately from the UNIX V6/V7 link editor.

Input and output files are in 4.4BSD-compatible a.out format. With some limitations, output may be passed through aout2elf to produce ELF executables.

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