section Cygnus Support Developer's Kit.
section Manuals.
section Using Online Documentation.
section Your Support Contract.
section Reporting Trouble.
section Free Software.
section About Cygnus Support.
section Cygnus Support and the FSF.

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Cygnus Support Developer's Kit

This Developer's Kit release puts at your disposal, in a single coordinated and tested release, some of the best software development tools available. These tools are available for native development (where the same kind of system can run both the tools and the code you develop with them) and for cross-development (where one system, the host, runs the tools to develop software for another system, the target).

Cygnus Support has ported GNU tools to over sixty different platforms. As part of our service, we integrate all our tools to ensure that they all work together. Our developers use a regression testing method that checks not only for problems with a single tool, but across all the tools. We check for problems that a change in one program may cause in another. We don't ship your Developer's Kit release until we know it works.

The Developer's Kit contains these development tools and utilities:
(Not all tools are available for all platforms and operating systems. See section `Overview' in Release Notes, for specific information on your system.)

Compilers and Development Tools

gcc

C compiler

g++

C++ compiler

gdb

Debugger

as

Assembler

gasp

Assembler Preprocessor

ld

Linker

Libraries

libg++

C++ class library

libio

C++ iostreams library

libc

ANSI C runtime library (only available for cross-development toolkits)

libm

C mathematical subroutine library (only available for cross-development toolkits)

General Utilities

byacc

Parser generator

flex

Fast lexical analyzer generator

make

Compilation control program

diff

diff3

sdiff

Compare text files

patch

Installs source fixes

cmp

Compares files byte-by-byte

send-pr

Sends structured problem reports to Cygnus

install-sid

Customizes send-pr for your site

gprof

Performance analyzer (only available for Sun 4 systems running SunOS 4 or Solaris 2)

gcov

Coverage analyzer

Binary Utilities

c++filt

C++ symbol name deciphering utility

nm

Lists object file symbol tables

objdump

Displays object file information

size

Lists section and total sizes

ar

Manages object code archives

ranlib

Generates archive index

strip

Discards symbols

objcopy

Copies and translates object files

Text Utilities

Texinfo (requires TeX)

texindex

texi2dvi

Documentation formatting tools

makeinfo

info

Online documentation tools