Why is the `nm` utility named as such?
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16-04-2021 - |
题
The nm
the utility to list symbols in a binary doesn't include in its documentation any explanation or clue of how it got to be named nm
.
I imagine some of the long experienced UNIX developers can shed some light.
Why is the nm
utility named as such?
解决方案
It's an abbreviation for "names" or "name list".
Nm prints the name list (symbol table) of each object file in the argument list.
(V7 Unix manual, 1979)
其他提示
Looking at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/nm.html it looks like it is an abbreviation for "NaMe list".
Name symbols. Thus "nm" is the abbreviation chosen.
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