1 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 # elftools example: examine_dwarf_info.py
4 # An example of examining information in the .debug_info section of an ELF file.
6 # Eli Bendersky (eliben@gmail.com)
7 # This code is in the public domain
8 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9 from __future__
import print_function
12 # If elftools is not installed, maybe we're running from the root or examples
13 # dir of the source distribution
17 sys
.path
.extend(['.', '..'])
19 from elftools
.elf
.elffile
import ELFFile
22 def process_file(filename
):
23 print('Processing file:', filename
)
24 with
open(filename
) as f
:
27 if not elffile
.has_dwarf_info():
28 print(' file has no DWARF info')
31 # get_dwarf_info returns a DWARFInfo context object, which is the
32 # starting point for all DWARF-based processing in pyelftools.
33 dwarfinfo
= elffile
.get_dwarf_info()
35 for CU
in dwarfinfo
.iter_CUs():
36 # DWARFInfo allows to iterate over the compile units contained in
37 # the .debug_info section. CU is a CompileUnit object, with some
38 # computed attributes (such as its offset in the section) and
39 # a header which conforms to the DWARF standard. The access to
40 # header elements is, as usual, via item-lookup.
41 print(' Found a compile unit at offset %s, length %s' % (
42 CU
.cu_offset
, CU
['unit_length']))
44 # The first DIE in each compile unit describes it.
45 top_DIE
= CU
.get_top_DIE()
46 print(' Top DIE with tag=%s' % top_DIE
.tag
)
48 # Each DIE holds an OrderedDict of attributes, mapping names to
49 # values. Values are represented by AttributeValue objects in
50 # elftools/dwarf/die.py
51 # We're interested in the DW_AT_name attribute. Note that its value
52 # is usually a string taken from the .debug_str section. This
53 # is done transparently by the library, and such a value will be
54 # simply given as a string.
55 name_attr
= top_DIE
.attributes
['DW_AT_name']
56 print(' name=%s' % name_attr
.value
)
58 if __name__
== '__main__':
59 for filename
in sys
.argv
[1:]:
60 process_file(filename
)