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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd January 15, 2003
28.Dt ELFDUMP 1
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm elfdump
32.Nd "display information about"
33.Tn ELF
34files
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm
37.Fl a | cdeGhinprs
38.Op Fl w Ar file
39.Ar file
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43utility
44dumps various information about the specified
45.Tn ELF
46.Ar file .
47.Pp
48The options are as follows:
49.Bl -tag -width ".Fl w Ar file"
50.It Fl a
51Dump all information.
52.It Fl c
53Dump section headers.
54.It Fl d
55Dump dynamic symbols.
56.It Fl e
57Dump ELF header.
58.It Fl G
59Dump the GOT.
60.It Fl h
61Dump the hash values.
62.It Fl i
63Dump the dynamic interpreter.
64.It Fl n
65Dump note sections.
66.It Fl p
67Dump the program header.
68.It Fl r
69Dump relocations.
70.It Fl s
71Dump the symbol table.
72.It Fl w Ar file
73Write output to a
74.Ar file
75instead of the standard output.
76.El
77.Sh EXIT STATUS
78.Ex -std
79.Sh EXAMPLES
80The following is an example of a typical usage
81of the
82.Nm
83command:
84.Pp
85.Dl "elfdump -a -w output /bin/ls"
86.Sh SEE ALSO
87.Xr objdump 1 ,
88.Xr readelf 1
89.Rs
90.%A "AT&T Unix Systems Labs"
91.%T "System V Application Binary Interface"
92.%U http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/
93.Re
94.Sh HISTORY
95The
96.Nm
97utility first appeared in
98.Fx 5.0 .
99.Sh AUTHORS
100.An -nosplit
101The
102.Nm
103utility
104was written by
105.An Jake Burkholder Aq Mt jake@FreeBSD.org .
106This
107manual page was written by
108.An David O'Brien Aq Mt obrien@FreeBSD.org .
109.Sh BUGS
110Does not fully implement the
111.Tn ELF
112gABI.
113