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25.Dd November 5, 2018
26.Dt ELFDUMP 1
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm elfdump
30.Nd "display information about"
31.Tn ELF
32files
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Fl a | E | cdeGhinprs
36.Op Fl w Ar file
37.Ar file
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41utility
42dumps various information about the specified
43.Tn ELF
44.Ar file .
45.Pp
46The options are as follows:
47.Bl -tag -width ".Fl w Ar file"
48.It Fl a
49Dump all information.
50.It Fl c
51Dump section headers.
52.It Fl d
53Dump dynamic symbols.
54.It Fl e
55Dump ELF header.
56.It Fl E
57Return success if
58.Ar file
59is an ELF file and failure if it is not.
60This option is exclusive with other options.
61.It Fl G
62Dump the GOT.
63.It Fl h
64Dump the hash values.
65.It Fl i
66Dump the dynamic interpreter.
67.It Fl n
68Dump note sections.
69.It Fl p
70Dump the program header.
71.It Fl r
72Dump relocations.
73.It Fl s
74Dump the symbol table.
75.It Fl w Ar file
76Write output to a
77.Ar file
78instead of the standard output.
79.El
80.Sh EXIT STATUS
81.Ex -std
82.Sh EXAMPLES
83The following is an example of a typical usage
84of the
85.Nm
86command:
87.Pp
88.Dl "elfdump -a -w output /bin/ls"
89.Sh SEE ALSO
90.Xr objdump 1 ,
91.Xr readelf 1
92.Rs
93.%A "AT&T Unix Systems Labs"
94.%T "System V Application Binary Interface"
95.%U http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/
96.Re
97.Sh HISTORY
98The
99.Nm
100utility first appeared in
101.Fx 5.0 .
102.Sh AUTHORS
103.An -nosplit
104The
105.Nm
106utility
107was written by
108.An Jake Burkholder Aq Mt jake@FreeBSD.org .
109This
110manual page was written by
111.An David O'Brien Aq Mt obrien@FreeBSD.org .
112.Sh BUGS
113Does not fully implement the
114.Tn ELF
115gABI.
116