The C guru

We have the pleasure of inheriting an application written in C that wraps a GDS API. I've been in the process of upgrading the API to the latest version and ran into a few stumbling blocks. In typical fasion, I'm posting the resolutions them here so I can find them again.

• ldd - Lists shared library dependencies
• nm - Lists symbols from object files
• objdump - Displays information from object files. This is like nm on steroids, and apparently also lists symbols for file that have had their symbols stripped.

BTW, the title of this post does not alude to me, but rather a label I've been throwing around at work for kicks, only it hasn't stuck to someone yet!