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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd November 5, 2018
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 | E | 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 E
59Return success if
60.Ar file
61is an ELF file and failure if it is not.
62This option is exclusive with other options.
63.It Fl G
64Dump the GOT.
65.It Fl h
66Dump the hash values.
67.It Fl i
68Dump the dynamic interpreter.
69.It Fl n
70Dump note sections.
71.It Fl p
72Dump the program header.
73.It Fl r
74Dump relocations.
75.It Fl s
76Dump the symbol table.
77.It Fl w Ar file
78Write output to a
79.Ar file
80instead of the standard output.
81.El
82.Sh EXIT STATUS
83.Ex -std
84.Sh EXAMPLES
85The following is an example of a typical usage
86of the
87.Nm
88command:
89.Pp
90.Dl "elfdump -a -w output /bin/ls"
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Xr objdump 1 ,
93.Xr readelf 1
94.Rs
95.%A "AT&T Unix Systems Labs"
96.%T "System V Application Binary Interface"
97.%U http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/
98.Re
99.Sh HISTORY
100The
101.Nm
102utility first appeared in
103.Fx 5.0 .
104.Sh AUTHORS
105.An -nosplit
106The
107.Nm
108utility
109was written by
110.An Jake Burkholder Aq Mt jake@FreeBSD.org .
111This
112manual page was written by
113.An David O'Brien Aq Mt obrien@FreeBSD.org .
114.Sh BUGS
115Does not fully implement the
116.Tn ELF
117gABI.
118