From:	"Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: \BIN Directory.
Date:	Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:41:37 +0300
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Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote in message
news:hFQq3.1659$X4 DOT 4064 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com...
> sephiroth wrote in message <37AB580F DOT B5E4D153 AT id-base DOT com>...
> >Just wondering what all this stuff in my \BIN directory is, All I use in
> >gcc.exe and gxx.exe. Is there documents which explain the rest of the
> >stuff in this directory.

Lost of the programs are used by GCC without explicitly any output that you
could identify them by - as.exe is used, for example, to translate the
assembly "image" of your program after it has been through a certain part of
the compiler system into the actual machine code the computer will execute
when your program is run. After "as" for instance, "ld" is used to "link"
the COFF object modules into an exe. Somewhere along this path (I think)
"stubify" is called too along with other programs (?) to eventually get you
to a point where you can run your program. Other programs in the /BIN
directory are used for building library files out of lots of object files
(ar.exe) making your programs smaller by stripping out uneeded debug info
(strip.exe) changing memory use paramteres (stubedit.exe) redirecting output
(redir.exe) makefile facilities for large projects (make.exe) program
debugging (gdb.exe) profiling (gprof.exe) etc...


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