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 elftools is not installed, maybe we're running from the root or examples
  13 # dir of the source distribution
  14 try:
  15     import elftools
  16 except ImportError:
  17     sys.path.extend(['.', '..'])
  18
  19 from elftools.common.py3compat import bytes2str
  20 from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
  21
  22
  23 def process_file(filename):
  24     print('In file:', filename)
  25     with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
  26         elffile = ELFFile(f)
  27
  28         for section in elffile.iter_sections():
  29             # Section names are bytes objects
  30             if section.name.startswith(b'.debug'):
  31                 print('  ' + bytes2str(section.name))
  32
  33
  34 if __name__ == '__main__':
  35     for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
  36         process_file(filename)
  37