objdump - display information from object files.
objdump [-a|--archive-headers]
[-b bfdname|--target=bfdname]
[-C|--demangle[=style] ]
[-d|--disassemble]
[-D|--disassemble-all]
[-z|--disassemble-zeroes]
[-EB|-EL|--endian={big | little }]
[-f|--file-headers]
[--file-start-context]
[-g|--debugging]
[-h|--section-headers|--headers]
[-i|--info]
[-j section|--section=section]
[-l|--line-numbers]
[-S|--source]
[-m machine|--architecture=machine]
[-M options|--disassembler-options=options]
[-p|--private-headers]
[-r|--reloc]
[-R|--dynamic-reloc]
[-s|--full-contents]
[-G|--stabs]
[-t|--syms]
[-T|--dynamic-syms]
[-x|--all-headers]
[-w|--wide]
[--start-address=address]
[--stop-address=address]
[--prefix-addresses]
[--[no-]show-raw-insn]
[--adjust-vma=offset]
[-V|--version]
[-H|--help]
objfile...
objdump displays information about one or more object files. The
options control what particular information to display. This information
is mostly useful to programmers who are working on the compilation
tools, as opposed to programmers who just want their program to compile
and work.
objfile... are the object files to be examined. When you specify archives,
objdump shows information on each of the member object files.
The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
equivalent. At least one option from the list
-a,-d,-D,-f,-g,-G,-h,-H,-p,-r,-R,-S,-t,-T,-V,-x must be given.
-a
--archive-header
If any of the objfile files are archives, display the archive
header information (in a format similar to ls -l). Besides the
information you could list with ar tv, objdump -a shows the object
file format of each archive member.
--adjust-vma=offset
When dumping information, first add offset to all the section
addresses. This is useful if the section addresses do not correspond
to the symbol table, which can happen when putting sections
at particular addresses when using a format which can not represent
section addresses, such as a.out.
-b bfdname
--target=bfdname
Specify that the object-code format for the object files is bfd-
name. This option may not be necessary; objdump can automatically
recognize many formats.
For example,
objdump -b oasys -m vax -h fu.o
displays summary information from the section headers (-h) of fu.o,
which is explicitly identified (-m) as a VAX object file in the
format produced by Oasys compilers. You can list the formats
available with the -i option.
-C
--demangle[=style]
Decode (demangle) low-level symbol names into user-level names.
Besides removing any initial underscore prepended by the system,
this makes C++ function names readable. Different compilers have
different mangling styles. The optional demangling style argument
can be used to choose an appropriate demangling style for your compiler.
-G
--debugging
Display debugging information. This attempts to parse debugging
information stored in the file and print it out using a C like syntax.
Only certain types of debugging information have been implemented.
-d
--disassemble
Display the assembler mnemonics for the machine instructions from
objfile. This option only disassembles those sections which are
expected to contain instructions.
-D
--disassemble-all
Like -d, but disassemble the contents of all sections, not just
those expected to contain instructions.
--prefix-addresses
When disassembling, print the complete address on each line. This
is the older disassembly format.
--disassemble-zeroes
Normally the disassembly output will skip blocks of zeroes. This
option directs the disassembler to disassemble those blocks, just
like any other data.
-EB
-EL
--endian={big|little}
Specify the endianness of the object files. This only affects disassembly.
This can be useful when disassembling a file format
which does not describe endianness information, such as S-records.
-f
--file-header
Display summary information from the overall header of each of the
objfile files.
--file-start-context
Specify that when displaying interlisted source code/disassembly
(assumes -S) from a file that has not yet been displayed, extend
the context to the start of the file.
-h
--section-header
--header
Display summary information from the section headers of the object
file.
File segments may be relocated to nonstandard addresses, for example
by using the -Ttext, -Tdata, or -Tbss options to ld. However,
some object file formats, such as a.out, do not store the starting
address of the file segments. In those situations, although ld
relocates the sections correctly, using objdump -h to list the file
section headers cannot show the correct addresses. Instead, it
shows the usual addresses, which are implicit for the target.
--help
Print a summary of the options to objdump and exit.
-i
--info
Display a list showing all architectures and object formats available
for specification with -b or -m.
-j name
--section=name
Display information only for section name.
-l
--line-numbers
Label the display (using debugging information) with the filename
and source line numbers corresponding to the object code or relocs
shown. Only useful with -d, -D, or -r.
-m machine
--architecture=machine
Specify the architecture to use when disassembling object files.
This can be useful when disassembling object files which do not
describe architecture information, such as S-records. You can list
the available architectures with the -i option.
-M options
--disassembler-options=options
Pass target specific information to the disassembler. Only supported
on some targets.
If the target is an ARM architecture then this switch can be used
to select which register name set is used during disassembler.
Specifying -M reg-name-std (the default) will select the register
names as used in ARM's instruction set documentation, but with register
13 called 'sp', register 14 called 'lr' and register 15
called 'pc'. Specifying -M reg-names-apcs will select the name set
used by the ARM Procedure Call Standard, whilst specifying -M reg-
names-raw will just use r followed by the register number.
There are also two variants on the APCS register naming scheme
enabled by -M reg-names-atpcs and -M reg-names-special-atpcs which
use the ARM/Thumb Procedure Call Standard naming conventions.
(Either with the normal register name or the special register
names).
This option can also be used for ARM architectures to force the
disassembler to interpret all instructions as Thumb instructions by
using the switch --disassembler-options=force-thumb. This can be
useful when attempting to disassemble thumb code produced by other
compilers.
For the x86, some of the options duplicate functions of the -m
switch, but allow finer grained control. Multiple selections from
the following may be specified as a comma separated string.
x86-64, i386 and i8086 select disassembly for the given architecture.
intel and att select between intel syntax mode and AT&T syntax
mode. addr32, addr16, data32 and data16 specify the default
address size and operand size. These four options will be overridden
if x86-64, i386 or i8086 appear later in the option string.
Lastly, suffix, when in AT&T mode, instructs the dissassembler to
print a mnemonic suffix even when the suffix could be inferred by
the operands.
For PPC, booke, booke32 and booke64 select disassembly of BookE
instructions. 32 and 64 select PowerPC and PowerPC64 disassembly,
respectively.
-p
--private-headers
Print information that is specific to the object file format. The
exact information printed depends upon the object file format. For
some object file formats, no additional information is printed.
-r
--reloc
Print the relocation entries of the file. If used with -d or -D,
the relocations are printed interspersed with the disassembly.
-R
--dynamic-reloc
Print the dynamic relocation entries of the file. This is only
meaningful for dynamic objects, such as certain types of shared
libraries.
-s
--full-contents
Display the full contents of any sections requested.
-S
--source
Display source code intermixed with disassembly, if possible.
Implies -d.
--show-raw-insn
When disassembling instructions, print the instruction in hex as
well as in symbolic form. This is the default except when --pre-
fix-addresses is used.
--no-show-raw-insn
When disassembling instructions, do not print the instruction
bytes. This is the default when --prefix-addresses is used.
-G
--stabs
Display the full contents of any sections requested. Display the
contents of the .stab and .stab.index and .stab.excl sections from
an ELF file. This is only useful on systems (such as Solaris 2.0)
in which ".stab" debugging symbol-table entries are carried in an
ELF section. In most other file formats, debugging symbol-table
entries are interleaved with linkage symbols, and are visible in
the --syms output.
--start-address=address
Start displaying data at the specified address. This affects the
output of the -d, -r and -s options.
--stop-address=address
Stop displaying data at the specified address. This affects the
output of the -d, -r and -s options.
-t
--syms
Print the symbol table entries of the file. This is similar to the
information provided by the nm program.
-T
--dynamic-syms
Print the dynamic symbol table entries of the file. This is only
meaningful for dynamic objects, such as certain types of shared
libraries. This is similar to the information provided by the nm
program when given the -D (--dynamic) option.
--version
Print the version number of objdump and exit.
-x
--all-header
Display all available header information, including the symbol table
and relocation entries. Using -x is equivalent to specifying
all of -a -f -h -r -t.
-w
--wide
Format some lines for output devices that have more than 80 columns.
Also do not truncate symbol names when they are displayed.
nm(1), readelf(1), and the Info entries for binutils.
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