Description:

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating,
modifying and extracting from archives), nm (for listing symbols from
object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files),
objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for
generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing
the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing
printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), c++filt
(a filter for demangling encoded C++ symbols), addr2line (for converting
addresses to file and line), and nlmconv (for converting object code into
an NLM).

Install binutils if you need to perform any of these types of actions on
binary files. Most programmers will want to install binutils.