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25.\" $Id: readelf.1 3486 2016-08-22 14:10:05Z emaste $
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27.Dd September 13, 2012
28.Os
29.Dt READELF 1
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm readelf
32.Nd display information about ELF objects
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl a | Fl -all
36.Op Fl c | Fl -archive-index
37.Op Fl d | Fl -dynamic
38.Op Fl e | Fl -headers
39.Op Fl g | Fl -section-groups
40.Op Fl h | Fl -file-header
41.Op Fl l | Fl -program-headers
42.Op Fl n | Fl -notes
43.Op Fl p Ar section | Fl -string-dump Ns = Ns Ar section
44.Op Fl r | Fl -relocs
45.Op Fl t | Fl -section-details
46.Op Fl v | Fl -version
47.Oo
48.Fl w Ns Oo Ns Ar afilmoprsFLR Ns Oc |
49.Fl -debug-dump Ns Op Ns = Ns Ar long-option-name , Ns ...
50.Oc
51.Op Fl x Ar section | Fl -hex-dump Ns = Ns Ar section
52.Op Fl A | Fl -arch-specific
53.Op Fl D | Fl -use-dynamic
54.Op Fl H | Fl -help
55.Op Fl I | Fl -histogram
56.Op Fl N | -full-section-name
57.Op Fl S | Fl -sections | Fl -section-headers
58.Op Fl V | Fl -version-info
59.Op Fl W | Fl -wide
60.Ar file...
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The
63.Nm
64utility displays information about ELF objects and
65.Xr ar 1
66archives.
67.Pp
68The
69.Nm
70utility recognizes the following options:
71.Bl -tag -width indent
72.It Fl a | Fl -all
73Turn on the following flags:
74.Fl d ,
75.Fl h ,
76.Fl I ,
77.Fl l ,
78.Fl r ,
79.Fl s ,
80.Fl A ,
81.Fl S
82and
83.Fl V .
84.It Fl c | Fl -archive-index
85Print the archive symbol table for archives.
86.It Fl d | Fl -dynamic
87Print the contents of the
88.Li SHT_DYNAMIC
89sections in the ELF object.
90.It Fl e | Fl -headers
91Print all program, file and section headers in the ELF object.
92.It Fl g | Fl -section-groups
93Print the contents of the section groups in the ELF object.
94.It Fl h | Fl -file-header
95Print the file header of the ELF object.
96.It Fl l | Fl -program-headers
97Print the content of the program header table for the object.
98.It Fl n | Fl -notes
99Print the contents of
100.Li PT_NOTE
101segments or
102.Li SHT_NOTE
103sections present in the ELF object.
104.It Fl p Ar section | Fl -string-dump Ns = Ns Ar section
105Print the contents of the specified section as printable strings.
106The argument
107.Ar section
108should be the name of a section or a numeric section index.
109.It Fl r | Fl -relocs
110Print relocation information.
111.It Fl s | Fl -syms | Fl -symbols
112Print symbol tables.
113.It Fl t | Fl -section-details
114Print additional information about sections, such as the flags
115fields in section headers.
116.It Fl v | Fl -version
117Prints a version identifier for
118.Nm
119and exits.
120.It Fl w Ns Oo afilmoprsFLR Oc | Xo
121.Fl -debug-dump Ns Op Ns = Ns Ar long-option-name , Ns ...
122.Xc
123Display DWARF information.
124The
125.Fl w
126option is used with the short options in the following
127table; the
128.Fl -debug-dump
129option is used with a comma-separated list of the corresponding long
130option names:
131.Bl -column ".Em Short Option" "aranges|ranges"
132.It Em Short Option Ta Em Long Option Ta Em Description
133.It a Ta abbrev Ta Show abbreviation information.
134.It f Ta frames Ta Show frame information, displaying frame instructions.
135.It i Ta info Ta Show debugging information entries.
136.It l Ta rawline Ta Show line information in raw form.
137.It m Ta macro Ta Show macro information.
138.It o Ta loc Ta Show location list information.
139.It p Ta pubnames Ta Show global names.
140.It r Ta aranges|ranges Ta Show address range information.
141.It s Ta str Ta Show the debug string table.
142.It F Ta frames-interp Ta Show frame information, displaying register rules.
143.It L Ta decodedline Ta Show line information in decoded form.
144.It R Ta Ranges Ta Show range lists.
145.El
146.Pp
147If no sub-options are specified, the default is to show information
148corresponding to the
149.Ar a , f , i, l , o , p , r , s
150and
151.Ar R
152short options.
153.It Fl x Ar section | Fl -hex-dump Ns = Ns Ar section
154Display the contents of the specified section in hexadecimal.
155The argument
156.Ar section
157should be the name of a section or a numeric section index.
158.It Fl A | Fl -arch-specific
159This option is accepted but is currently unimplemented.
160.It Fl D | Fl -use-dynamic
161Print the symbol table specified by the
162.Li DT_SYMTAB
163entry in the
164.Dq Li .dynamic
165section.
166.It Fl H | Fl -help
167Print a help message.
168.It Fl I | Fl -histogram
169Print information on bucket list lengths for sections of type
170.Li SHT_HASH
171and
172.Li SHT_GNU_HASH .
173.It Fl N | Fl -full-section-name
174This option is accepted but is currently unimplemented.
175.It Fl S | Fl -sections | Fl -section-headers
176Print information in the section headers for each ELF object.
177.It Fl V | Fl -version-info
178Print symbol versioning information.
179.It Fl W | Fl -wide
180Print information about ELF structures using one long line per
181structure.
182If this option is not specified,
183.Nm
184will list information in the headers of 64 bit ELF objects on two
185separate lines.
186.El
187.Sh EXIT STATUS
188.Ex -std
189.Sh SEE ALSO
190.Xr nm 1 ,
191.Xr addr2line 1 ,
192.Xr elfcopy 1 ,
193.Sh AUTHORS
194The
195.Nm
196utility was written by
197.An Kai Wang Aq Mt kaiwang27@users.sourceforge.net .
198