Looking at the manuals, objdump
and nm
have overlapping features.
When would you use each one? What was the original purpose of each command?
They have no similar parameters.
nm
lists file symbols, while objdump
can show a lot of different information about files. objdump
can shows symbols too, and it is explicitly noted in the manpage that "This is similar to the information provided by the nm program, although the display format is different."