June 2003
Beginner to intermediate
944 pages
43h 1m
English
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Name
readelf
Synopsis
readelf
option[...] elffiles
Display information about about one or more ELF (Executable and Linking Format) object files. At least one option is required to specify the information to be displayed for each file. readelf does not currently work on archive files or 64-bit ELF files.
Options
- -a, --all
Display all. Equivalent to -h -l -S -s -r -d -n -V.
- -d, --dynamic
Display the dynamic section.
- -D, --use-dynamic
When displaying symbols, use the symbol table in the dynamic section, not the symbols section.
- -e, --headers
Display all headers. Equivalent to -h -l -s.
- -h, --file-header
Display the ELF header at the beginning of the file.
- --help
Display help information and exit.
- --histogram
Display a histogram of bucket bit lengths when displaying the symbol tables.
- -l, --program-headers, --segments
Display the segment headers, if any.
- -n, --notes
Display the NOTE segment, if any.
- -r, --relocs
Display the relocation segment, if any.
- -s, --symbols, --syms
Display entries in symbol table sections, if any.
- -S, --section-headers, --sections
Display the section headers, if any.
- -u, --unwind
Display the unwind section, if any (currently applies only to IA64 ELF files).
- -v, --version
Display version information and exit.
- -V, --version-info
Display the version sections, if any.
- -w[option], --debug-dump[= option]
Display the debug sections. If specified with an option, display only that section. The options shown here in parentheses are for -w; the words preceding them are for ...
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