[llvm-dev] Object file tools

[Ed Maste via llvm-dev]

On 9 January 2017 at 16:12, Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> IIUC, providing binutils tools is a part of a LLVM project goal, so sooner
> or later we need to write llvm-objcopy and llvm-strip, though I know no one
> working on these tools at the moment.

As an aside, for anyone looking for an alternative to binutils (while
suitable LLVM-based ones are not available) the ELF Tool Chain project
provides a reasonably complete set under a BSD license. This is what
we're currently using in FreeBSD for objcopy, strip, nm, etc.

https://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain