ELFUTILS

The current elfutils source code can be checked out with:

Please reports bugs at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/

Project discussion on [email protected] (archives) or visit us on the Libera.Chat irc channel #elfutils.

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See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to propose patches to the code.

See the DEBUGINFOD page for information about the new debuginfod client/server.

Last release: tar.bz2 (sig) release notes: 0.192 0.191 0.190 0.189 0.188 0.187 0.186 0.185 0.184 0.183 0.182 0.181 ...

All releases: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/elfutils/ or https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/

Tests code coverage for current git, for the last release, old versions and older git snapshots.

Included libraries:

libelf

elf32, elf64 and gelf functions to read, modify and create ELF files.

libdw

dwarf, dwfl and dwelf functions to read DWARF, find separate debuginfo, symbols and inspect process state.

libasm

asm and disasm functions to assemble and disassamble instructions (partial support for i686 and BPF instructions only).

Included utilities:

eu-addr2line

Locate source files and line information for addresses.

eu-ar

Create, modify, and extract from archives.

eu-elfcmp

Compare relevant parts of two ELF files for equality.

eu-elfcompress

Compress or decompress sections in an ELF file.

eu-elflint

Pedantic checking of ELF files compliance with gABI/psABI spec.

eu-findtextrel

Locate source of text relocations in ELF files.

eu-make-debug-archive

Script to make an offline archive for debugging of ELF binaries and linux kernel modules

eu-nm

List symbols from ELF files.

eu-objdump

Show information from ELF files.

eu-ranlib

Generate an index to speed access to archives.

eu-readelf

Print information from ELF file in human-readable form.

eu-size

List section sizes of ELF files.

eu-stack

Print a stack for each thread in a process or core file.

eu-strings

Print the strings of printable characters in files.

eu-strip

Discard symbols and debug data from object files.

eu-unstrip

Combine stripped files with separate symbols and debug information.

Included backends for machine specific ELF handling:

Design notes and extensions supported:

• Some design decisions and NOTES.
• List of DwarfExtensions recognized.
• List of ElflintGNU issues recognized.
• OldWikiIndex (outdated) project list.