binutils/objdump.1

   1 .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
   2 .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
   3 .TH objdump 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
   4 .de BP
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   6 .ti \-.2i
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   9
  10 .SH NAME
  11 objdump\(em\&display information from object files.
  12
  13 .SH SYNOPSIS
  14 .hy 0
  15 .na
  16 .TP
  17 .B   objdump
  18 .RB "[\|" \-a "\|]"
  19 .RB "[\|" "\-b\ "\c
  20 .I bfdname\c
  21 \&\|]
  22 .RB "[\|" \-d "\|]"
  23 .RB "[\|" \-f "\|]"
  24 .RB "[\|" \-h | --header "\|]"
  25 .RB "[\|" \-i "\|]"
  26 .RB "[\|" "\-j\ "\c
  27 .I section\c
  28 \&\|]
  29 .RB "[\|" \-l "\|]"
  30 .RB "[\|" "\-m\ "\c
  31 .I machine\c
  32 \&\|]
  33 .RB "[\|" \-r | --reloc "\|]"
  34 .RB "[\|" \-s "\|]"
  35 .RB "[\|" \--stabs "\|]"
  36 .RB "[\|" \-t | --syms "\|]"
  37 .RB "[\|" \-x "\|]"
  38 .I objfiles\c
  39 \&.\|.\|.
  40 .ad b
  41 .hy 1
  42 .SH DESCRIPTION
  43 \c
  44 .B objdump\c
  45 \& displays information about one or more object files.
  46 The options control what particular information to display.  This
  47 information is mostly useful to programmers who are working on the
  48 compilation tools, as opposed to programmers who just want their
  49 program to compile and work.
  50 .SH OPTIONS
  51 Where long and short forms of an option are shown together, they are
  52 equivalent.
  53
  54 .TP
  55 .IR  "objfiles" .\|.\|.
  56 The object files to be examined.  When you specify archives,
  57 \c
  58 .B objdump\c
  59 \& shows information on each of the member object files.
  60
  61 .TP
  62 .B \-a
  63 If any files from \c
  64 .I objfiles\c
  65 \& are archives, display the archive
  66 header information (in a format similar to `\|\c
  67 .B ls \-l\c
  68 \|').  Besides the
  69 information you could list with `\|\c
  70 .B ar tv\c
  71 \|', `\|\c
  72 .B objdump \-a\c
  73 \|' shows
  74 the object file format of each archive member.
  75
  76 .TP
  77 .BI "-b " "bfdname"\c
  78 \&
  79 You can specify a particular object-code format for your object files as
  80 \c
  81 .I bfdname\c
  82 \&.  This may not be necessary; \c
  83 .I objdump\c
  84 \& can
  85 automatically recognize many formats.  For example,
  86 .sp
  87 .br
  88 objdump\ \-b\ oasys\ \-m\ vax\ \-h\ fu.o
  89 .br
  90 .sp
  91
  92 Displays summary information from the section headers (`\|\c
  93 .B \-h\c
  94 \|') of
  95 `\|\c
  96 .B fu.o\c
  97 \|', which is explicitly identified (`\|\c
  98 .B \-m\c
  99 \|') as a Vax object
 100 file in the format produced by Oasys compilers.  You can list the
 101 formats available with the `\|\c
 102 .B \-i\c
 103 \|' option.
 104
 105 .TP
 106 .B \-d
 107 Disassemble.  Display the assembler mnemonics for the machine
 108 instructions from \c
 109 .I objfiles\c
 110 \&.
 111
 112 .TP
 113 .B \-f
 114 File header.  Display summary information from the overall header of
 115 each file in \c
 116 .I objfiles\c
 117 \&.
 118
 119 .TP
 120 .B \-h
 121 .TP
 122 .B --header
 123 Header.  Display summary information from the section headers of the
 124 object file.
 125
 126 .TP
 127 .B \-i
 128 Display a list showing all architectures and object formats available
 129 for specification with \c
 130 .B \-b\c
 131 \& or \c
 132 .B \-m\c
 133 \&.
 134
 135 .TP
 136 .BI "-j " "name"\c
 137 \&
 138 Display information only for section \c
 139 .I name\c
 140 \&
 141
 142 .TP
 143 .B \-l
 144 Label the display (using debugging information) with the source filename
 145 and line numbers corresponding to the object code shown.
 146
 147 .TP
 148 .BI "-m " "machine"\c
 149 \&
 150 Specify the object files \c
 151 .I objfiles\c
 152 \& are for architecture
 153 \c
 154 .I machine\c
 155 \&.  You can list available architectures using the `\|\c
 156 .B \-i\c
 157 \|'
 158 option.
 159
 160 .TP
 161 .B \-r
 162 .TP
 163 .B --reloc
 164 Relocation.  Print the relocation entries of the file.
 165
 166 .TP
 167 .B \-s
 168 Display the full contents of any sections requested.
 169
 170 .TP
 171 .B \--stabs
 172 Display the contents of the .stab, .stab.index, and .stab.excl
 173 sections from an ELF file.  This is only useful on systems (such as
 174 Solaris 2.0) in which .stab debugging symbol-table entries are carried
 175 in an ELF section.  In most other file formats, debugging symbol-table
 176 entries are interleaved with linkage symbols, and are visible in the
 177 --syms output.
 178
 179 .TP
 180 .B \-t
 181 .TP
 182 .B --syms
 183 Symbol Table.  Print the symbol table entries of the file.
 184 This is similar to the information provided by the `\|\c
 185 .B nm\c
 186 \|' program.
 187
 188 .TP
 189 .B \-x
 190 Display all available header information, including the symbol table and
 191 relocation entries.  Using `\|\c
 192 .B \-x\c
 193 \|' is equivalent to specifying all of
 194 `\|\c
 195 .B \-a \-f \-h \-r \-t\c
 196 \|'.
 197
 198 .PP
 199
 200 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 201 .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
 202 entry in
 203 .B
 204 info\c
 205 \&;
 206 .I
 207 The GNU Binary Utilities\c
 208 \&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991);
 209 .BR nm "(" 1 ")."
 210
 211 .SH COPYING
 212 Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 213 .PP
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 217 .PP
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 222 .PP
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 227 the original English.