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                     36: .Dd June 6, 1993
                     37: .Dt NM 1
                     38: .Os BSD 4
                     39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm nm
                     41: .Nd display name list (symbol table)
                     42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Nm nm
                     44: .Op Fl agnopruw
                     45: .Ar
                     46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     47: The symbol table (name list) of each object in
                     48: .Ar file(s)
                     49: is displayed.
                     50: If a library (archive) is given,
                     51: .Nm
                     52: displays a list for each
                     53: object archive member.
                     54: If
                     55: .Ar file
                     56: is not present,
                     57: .Nm
                     58: searches for the file
                     59: .Pa a.out
                     60: and if present, displays the symbol
                     61: table for
                     62: .Pa a.out .
                     63: .Bl -tag -width flag
                     64: .It Fl a
                     65: Display symbol table entries inserted for use by debuggers.
                     66: .It Fl g
                     67: Restrict display to external (global) symbols.
                     68: .It Fl n
                     69: Present results in numerical order.
                     70: .It Fl o
                     71: Display full path or library name of object on every line.
                     72: .It Fl p
                     73: Do not sort at all.
                     74: .It Fl r
                     75: Reverse order sort.
                     76: .It Fl u
                     77: Display undefined symbols only.
                     78: .It Fl w
                     79: Warn about non-object archive members.
                     80: Normally, nm will silently ignore all archive members which are not
                     81: object files.
                     82: .El
                     83: .Pp
                     84: Each symbol name is preceded by its value (a blank field if the symbol
                     85: is undefined) and one of the following letters:
                     86: .Pp
                     87: .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
                     88: .It Fl
                     89: debugger symbol table entries (see the
                     90: .Fl a
                     91: option).
                     92: .It Li A
                     93: absolute
                     94: .It Li B
                     95: bss segment symbol
                     96: .It Li C
                     97: common symbol
                     98: .It Li D
                     99: data segment symbol
                    100: .It Li f
                    101: file name
                    102: .It Li T
                    103: text segment symbol
                    104: .It Li U
                    105: undefined
                    106: .El
                    107: .Pp
                    108: If the symbol is local (non-external) the type letter is in lower case.
                    109: The output is sorted alphabetically.
                    110: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    111: .Xr ar 1 ,
                    112: .Xr ar 5 ,
                    113: .Xr a.out 5 ,
                    114: .Xr stab 5
                    115: .Sh HISTORY
                    116: An
                    117: .Nm nm
                    118: command appeared in
                    119: .At v6 .