examples/elf_show_debug_sections.py

   1 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   2 # elftools example: elf_show_debug_sections.py
   3 #
   4 # Show the names of all .debug_* sections in ELF files.
   5 #
   6 # Eli Bendersky (eliben@gmail.com)
   7 # This code is in the public domain
   8 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   9 from __future__ import print_function
  10 import sys
  11
  12 # If pyelftools is not installed, the example can also run from the root or
  13 # examples/ dir of the source distribution.
  14 sys.path[0:0] = ['.', '..']
  15
  16 from elftools.common.py3compat import bytes2str
  17 from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
  18
  19
  20 def process_file(filename):
  21     print('In file:', filename)
  22     with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
  23         elffile = ELFFile(f)
  24
  25         for section in elffile.iter_sections():
  26             # Section names are bytes objects
  27             if section.name.startswith(b'.debug'):
  28                 print('  ' + bytes2str(section.name))
  29
  30
  31 if __name__ == '__main__':
  32     for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
  33         process_file(filename)
  34