readelf displays information about one or more ELF format object
files. The options control what particular information to display.
elffile... are the object files to be examined. 32-bit and
64-bit ELF files are supported, as are archives containing ELF files.
This program performs a similar function to objdump but it
goes into more detail and it exists independently of the BFD
library, so if there is a bug in BFD then readelf will not be
affected.
OPTIONS
The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
equivalent. At least one option besides -v or -H must be
given.
-a
--all
Equivalent to specifying --file-header,
--program-headers, --sections, --symbols,
--relocs, --dynamic, --notes and
--version-info.
-h
--file-header
Displays the information contained in the ELF header at the start of the
file.
-l
--program-headers
--segments
Displays the information contained in the file's segment headers, if it
has any.
-S
--sections
--section-headers
Displays the information contained in the file's section headers, if it
has any.
-g
--section-groups
Displays the information contained in the file's section groups, if it
has any.
-t
--section-details
Displays the detailed section information. Implies -S.
-s
--symbols
--syms
Displays the entries in symbol table section of the file, if it has one.
-e
--headers
Display all the headers in the file. Equivalent to -h -l -S.
-n
--notes
Displays the contents of the NOTE segments and/or sections, if any.
-r
--relocs
Displays the contents of the file's relocation section, if it has one.
-u
--unwind
Displays the contents of the file's unwind section, if it has one. Only
the unwind sections for IA64 ELF files are currently supported.
-d
--dynamic
Displays the contents of the file's dynamic section, if it has one.
-V
--version-info
Displays the contents of the version sections in the file, it they
exist.
-A
--arch-specific
Displays architecture-specific information in the file, if there
is any.
-D
--use-dynamic
When displaying symbols, this option makes readelf use the
symbol table in the file's dynamic section, rather than the one in the
symbols section.
-x <number or name>
--hex-dump=<number or name>
Displays the contents of the indicated section as a hexadecimal dump.
A number identifies a particular section by index in the section table;
any other string identifies all sections with that name in the object file.
Displays the contents of the debug sections in the file, if any are
present. If one of the optional letters or words follows the switch
then only data found in those specific sections will be dumped.
-I
--histogram
Display a histogram of bucket list lengths when displaying the contents
of the symbol tables.
-v
--version
Display the version number of readelf.
-W
--wide
Don't break output lines to fit into 80 columns. By default
readelf breaks section header and segment listing lines for
64-bit ELF files, so that they fit into 80 columns. This option causes
readelf to print each section header resp. each segment one a
single line, which is far more readable on terminals wider than 80 columns.
-H
--help
Display the command line options understood by readelf.
@file
Read command-line options from file. The options read are
inserted in place of the original @file option. If file
does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated
literally, and not removed.
Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace
character may be included in an option by surrounding the entire
option in either single or double quotes. Any character (including a
backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be included
with a backslash. The file may itself contain additional
@file options; any such options will be processed recursively.
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