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Useful all term

A few commands

Here are some commands you will use throughout the term.

  • Look at the contents of any file

    hexdump -C filename

  • Compile a C program

    gcc -Wall -Werror -g -o executable-name source-file.c [more files...]

(we will add some other command-line options later in the term)

  • Compile a C file to an object module (this produces source-file.o)

    gcc -Wall -Werror -g -c source-file.c

  • Translate an executable or object module to assembly language

    objdump -d obj-module

Getting started

Unix

C

GDB

x86-64

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