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25.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/elfdump/elfdump.1,v 1.6 2005/01/18 13:43:48 ru Exp $
26.\" $Id: elfdump.1 3231 2015-07-30 13:47:56Z emaste $
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28.Dd August 25, 2011
29.Dt ELFDUMP 1
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm elfdump
33.Nd "display information about"
34.Tn ELF
35files
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Fl a | cdeGhiknprsv
39.Op Fl S
40.Op Fl V
41.Op Fl N Ar name
42.Op Fl w Ar file
43.Ar file ...
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47utility
48dumps various information about the specified
49.Tn ELF
50.Ar file .
51.Pp
52The options are as follows:
53.Bl -tag -width ".Fl w Ar file"
54.It Fl a
55Dump all information.
56.It Fl c
57Dump section headers.
58.It Fl d
59Dump dynamic symbols.
60.It Fl e
61Dump ELF header.
62.It Fl G
63Dump the GOT.
64.It Fl h
65Dump the hash values.
66.It Fl i
67Dump the dynamic interpreter.
68.It Fl k
69Dump the ELF checksum.
70.It Fl n
71Dump note sections.
72.It Fl N Ar name
73Only dump the section with the specific
74.Ar name .
75Archive symbol table can be specified with
76the special section name ARSYM.
77More than one
78.Fl N
79option may appear.
80.It Fl p
81Dump the program header.
82.It Fl r
83Dump relocations.
84.It Fl s
85Dump the symbol table.
86.It Fl S
87Output in the Solaris
88.Nm
89format.
90.It Fl v
91Dump the symbol-versioning sections.
92.It Fl V
93Print a version identifier and exit.
94.It Fl w Ar file
95Write output to a
96.Ar file
97instead of the standard output.
98.El
99.Sh EXIT STATUS
100.Ex -std
101.Sh EXAMPLES
102The following is an example of a typical usage
103of the
104.Nm
105command:
106.Pp
107.Dl "elfdump -a -w output /bin/ls"
108.Pp
109To dump the content of '.dynsym' symbol table:
110.Pp
111.Dl "elfdump -s -N .dynsym /bin/ls"
112.Pp
113To dump the archive symbol table,
114but not the symbol tables of archive members:
115.Pp
116.Dl "elfdump -s -N ARSYM /usr/lib/libelf.a"
117.Pp
118To dump the content of .got section and
119the symbol-versioning sections in Solaris
120.Nm
121format:
122.Pp
123.Dl "elfdump -S -Gv /bin/ls"
124.Sh SEE ALSO
125.Xr objdump 1 ,
126.Xr readelf 1 ,
127.Xr elf 3
128.Rs
129.%A "AT&T Unix Systems Labs"
130.%T "System V Application Binary Interface"
131.%O http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/
132.Re
133.Sh HISTORY
134The
135.Nm
136utility first appeared in
137.Fx 5.0 .
138.Sh AUTHORS
139.An -nosplit
140The
141.Nm
142utility
143was written by
144.An Jake Burkholder Aq Mt jake@FreeBSD.org .
145Later it was rewritten based on the
146libelf library.
147This
148manual page was written by
149.An David O'Brien Aq Mt obrien@FreeBSD.org .
150.Pp
151.An Kai Wang Aq Mt kaiw@FreeBSD.org
152rewrote it using the
153.Lb libelf
154and implemented additional functionality.
155.Sh BUGS
156Does not fully implement the
157.Tn ELF
158gABI.
159