OBJDUMP(1) GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1)
NAME
objdump - display information from object files
SYNOPSIS
objdump [-a|--archive-headers]
[-b bfdname|--target=bfdname]
[-C|--demangle[=style] ]
[-d|--disassemble[=symbol]]
[-D|--disassemble-all]
[-z|--disassemble-zeroes]
[-EB|-EL|--endian={big | little }]
[-f|--file-headers]
[-F|--file-offsets]
[--file-start-context]
[-g|--debugging]
[-e|--debugging-tags]
[-h|--section-headers|--headers]
[-i|--info]
[-j section|--section=section]
[-l|--line-numbers]
[-S|--source]
[--source-comment[=text]]
[-m machine|--architecture=machine]
[-M options|--disassembler-options=options]
[-p|--private-headers]
[-P options|--private=options]
[-r|--reloc]
[-R|--dynamic-reloc]
[-s|--full-contents]
[-Z|--decompress]
[-W[lLiaprmfFsoORtUuTgAck]|
--dwarf[=rawline,=decodedline,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=aranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=str-offsets,=loc,=Ranges,=pubtypes,=trace_info,=trace_abbrev,=trace_aranges,=gdb_index,=addr,=cu_index,=links]]
[-WK|--dwarf=follow-links]
[-WN|--dwarf=no-follow-links]
[-wD|--dwarf=use-debuginfod]
[-wE|--dwarf=do-not-use-debuginfod]
[-L|--process-links]
[--ctf=section]
[--sframe=section]
[-G|--stabs]
[-t|--syms]
[-T|--dynamic-syms]
[-x|--all-headers]
[-w|--wide]
[--start-address=address]
[--stop-address=address]
[--no-addresses]
[--prefix-addresses]
[--[no-]show-raw-insn]
[--adjust-vma=offset]
[--show-all-symbols]
[--dwarf-depth=n]
[--dwarf-start=n]
[--ctf-parent=section]
[--no-recurse-limit|--recurse-limit]
[--special-syms]
[--prefix=prefix]
[--prefix-strip=level]
[--insn-width=width]
[--visualize-jumps[=color|=extended-color|=off]
[--disassembler-color=[off|terminal|on|extended]
[-U method] [--unicode=method]
[-V|--version]
[-H|--help]
objfile...
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
equivalent. At least one option from the list
-a,-d,-D,-e,-f,-g,-G,-h,-H,-p,-P,-r,-R,-s,-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 bfdname.
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.
--recurse-limit
--no-recurse-limit
--recursion-limit
--no-recursion-limit
Enables or disables a limit on the amount of recursion performed
whilst demangling strings. Since the name mangling formats allow
for an infinite level of recursion it is possible to create strings
whose decoding will exhaust the amount of stack space available on
the host machine, triggering a memory fault. The limit tries to
prevent this from happening by restricting recursion to 2048 levels
of nesting.
The default is for this limit to be enabled, but disabling it may be
necessary in order to demangle truly complicated names. Note
however that if the recursion limit is disabled then stack
exhaustion is possible and any bug reports about such an event will
be rejected.
-g
--debugging
Display debugging information. This attempts to parse STABS
debugging format information stored in the file and print it out
using a C like syntax. If no STABS debugging was found this option
falls back on the -W option to print any DWARF information in the
file.
-e
--debugging-tags
Like -g, but the information is generated in a format compatible
with ctags tool.
-d
--disassemble
--disassemble=symbol
Display the assembler mnemonics for the machine instructions from
the input file. This option only disassembles those sections which
are expected to contain instructions. If the optional symbol
argument is given, then display the assembler mnemonics starting at
symbol. If symbol is a function name then disassembly will stop at
the end of the function, otherwise it will stop when the next symbol
is encountered. If there are no matches for symbol then nothing
will be displayed.
Note if the --dwarf=follow-links option is enabled then any symbol
tables in linked debug info files will be read in and used when
disassembling.
-D
--disassemble-all
Like -d, but disassemble the contents of all non-empty non-bss
sections, not just those expected to contain instructions. -j may
be used to select specific sections.
This option also has a subtle effect on the disassembly of
instructions in code sections. When option -d is in effect objdump
will assume that any symbols present in a code section occur on the
boundary between instructions and it will refuse to disassemble
across such a boundary. When option -D is in effect however this
assumption is supressed. This means that it is possible for the
output of -d and -D to differ if, for example, data is stored in
code sections.
If the target is an ARM architecture this switch also has the effect
of forcing the disassembler to decode pieces of data found in code
sections as if they were instructions.
Note if the --dwarf=follow-links option is enabled then any symbol
tables in linked debug info files will be read in and used when
disassembling.
--no-addresses
When disassembling, don't print addresses on each line or for
symbols and relocation offsets. In combination with
--no-show-raw-insn this may be useful for comparing compiler output.
--prefix-addresses
When disassembling, print the complete address on each line. This
is the older disassembly format.
-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-headers
Display summary information from the overall header of each of the
objfile files.
-F
--file-offsets
When disassembling sections, whenever a symbol is displayed, also
display the file offset of the region of data that is about to be
dumped. If zeroes are being skipped, then when disassembly resumes,
tell the user how many zeroes were skipped and the file offset of
the location from where the disassembly resumes. When dumping
sections, display the file offset of the location from where the
dump starts.
--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-headers
--headers
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.
Note, in some cases it is possible for a section to have both the
READONLY and the NOREAD attributes set. In such cases the NOREAD
attribute takes precedence, but objdump will report both since the
exact setting of the flag bits might be important.
-H
--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 for section name. This option may be specified
multiple times.
-L
--process-links
Display the contents of non-debug sections found in separate
debuginfo files that are linked to the main file. This option
automatically implies the -WK option, and only sections requested by
other command line options will be displayed.
-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.
For most architectures it is possible to supply an architecture name
and a machine name, separated by a colon. For example foo:bar would
refer to the bar machine type in the foo architecture. This can be
helpful if objdump has been configured to support multiple
architectures.
If the target is an ARM architecture then this switch has an
additional effect. It restricts the disassembly to only those
instructions supported by the architecture specified by machine. If
it is necessary to use this switch because the input file does not
contain any architecture information, but it is also desired to
disassemble all the instructions use -marm.
-M options
--disassembler-options=options
Pass target specific information to the disassembler. Only
supported on some targets. If it is necessary to specify more than
one disassembler option then multiple -M options can be used or can
be placed together into a comma separated list.
For ARC, dsp controls the printing of DSP instructions, spfp selects
the printing of FPX single precision FP instructions, dpfp selects
the printing of FPX double precision FP instructions, quarkse_em
selects the printing of special QuarkSE-EM instructions, fpuda
selects the printing of double precision assist instructions, fpus
selects the printing of FPU single precision FP instructions, while
fpud selects the printing of FPU double precision FP instructions.
Additionally, one can choose to have all the immediates printed in
hexadecimal using hex. By default, the short immediates are printed
using the decimal representation, while the long immediate values
are printed as hexadecimal.
cpu=... allows one to enforce a particular ISA when disassembling
instructions, overriding the -m value or whatever is in the ELF
file. This might be useful to select ARC EM or HS ISA, because
architecture is same for those and disassembler relies on private
ELF header data to decide if code is for EM or HS. This option
might be specified multiple times - only the latest value will be
used. Valid values are same as for the assembler -mcpu=... option.
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-names-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 names 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 AArch64 targets this switch can be used to set whether
instructions are disassembled as the most general instruction using
the -M no-aliases option or whether instruction notes should be
generated as comments in the disasssembly using -M notes.
For the x86, some of the options duplicate functions of the -m
switch, but allow finer grained control.
"x86-64"
"i386"
"i8086"
Select disassembly for the given architecture.
"intel"
"att"
Select between intel syntax mode and AT&T syntax mode.
"amd64"
"intel64"
Select between AMD64 ISA and Intel64 ISA.
"intel-mnemonic"
"att-mnemonic"
Select between intel mnemonic mode and AT&T mnemonic mode.
Note: "intel-mnemonic" implies "intel" and "att-mnemonic"
implies "att".
"addr64"
"addr32"
"addr16"
"data32"
"data16"
Specify the default address size and operand size. These five
options will be overridden if "x86-64", "i386" or "i8086" appear
later in the option string.
"suffix"
When in AT&T mode and also for a limited set of instructions
when in Intel mode, instructs the disassembler to print a
mnemonic suffix even when the suffix could be inferred by the
operands or, for certain instructions, the execution mode's
defaults.
For PowerPC, the -M argument raw selects disasssembly of hardware
insns rather than aliases. For example, you will see "rlwinm"
rather than "clrlwi", and "addi" rather than "li". All of the -m
arguments for gas that select a CPU are supported. These are: 403,
405, 440, 464, 476, 601, 603, 604, 620, 7400, 7410, 7450, 7455,
750cl, 821, 850, 860, a2, booke, booke32, cell, com, e200z2, e200z4,
e300, e500, e500mc, e500mc64, e500x2, e5500, e6500, efs, power4,
power5, power6, power7, power8, power9, power10, power11, ppc,
ppc32, ppc64, ppc64bridge, ppcps, pwr, pwr2, pwr4, pwr5, pwr5x,
pwr6, pwr7, pwr8, pwr9, pwr10, pwr11, pwrx, titan, vle, and future.
32 and 64 modify the default or a prior CPU selection, disabling and
enabling 64-bit insns respectively. In addition, altivec, any, lsp,
htm, vsx, spe and spe2 add capabilities to a previous or later CPU
selection. any will disassemble any opcode known to binutils, but
in cases where an opcode has two different meanings or different
arguments, you may not see the disassembly you expect. If you
disassemble without giving a CPU selection, a default will be chosen
from information gleaned by BFD from the object files headers, but
the result again may not be as you expect.
For MIPS, this option controls the printing of instruction mnemonic
names and register names in disassembled instructions. Multiple
selections from the following may be specified as a comma separated
string, and invalid options are ignored:
"no-aliases"
Print the 'raw' instruction mnemonic instead of some pseudo
instruction mnemonic. I.e., print 'daddu' or 'or' instead of
'move', 'sll' instead of 'nop', etc.
"msa"
Disassemble MSA instructions.
"virt"
Disassemble the virtualization ASE instructions.
"xpa"
Disassemble the eXtended Physical Address (XPA) ASE
instructions.
"gpr-names=ABI"
Print GPR (general-purpose register) names as appropriate for
the specified ABI. By default, GPR names are selected according
to the ABI of the binary being disassembled.
"fpr-names=ABI"
Print FPR (floating-point register) names as appropriate for the
specified ABI. By default, FPR numbers are printed rather than
names.
"cp0-names=ARCH"
Print CP0 (system control coprocessor; coprocessor 0) register
names as appropriate for the CPU or architecture specified by
ARCH. By default, CP0 register names are selected according to
the architecture and CPU of the binary being disassembled.
"hwr-names=ARCH"
Print HWR (hardware register, used by the "rdhwr" instruction)
names as appropriate for the CPU or architecture specified by
ARCH. By default, HWR names are selected according to the
architecture and CPU of the binary being disassembled.
"reg-names=ABI"
Print GPR and FPR names as appropriate for the selected ABI.
"reg-names=ARCH"
Print CPU-specific register names (CP0 register and HWR names)
as appropriate for the selected CPU or architecture.
For any of the options listed above, ABI or ARCH may be specified as
numeric to have numbers printed rather than names, for the selected
types of registers. You can list the available values of ABI and
ARCH using the --help option.
For VAX, you can specify function entry addresses with -M
entry:0xf00ba. You can use this multiple times to properly
disassemble VAX binary files that don't contain symbol tables (like
ROM dumps). In these cases, the function entry mask would otherwise
be decoded as VAX instructions, which would probably lead the rest
of the function being wrongly disassembled.
-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.
-P options
--private=options
Print information that is specific to the object file format. The
argument options is a comma separated list that depends on the
format (the lists of options is displayed with the help).
For XCOFF, the available options are:
"header"
"aout"
"sections"
"syms"
"relocs"
"lineno,"
"loader"
"except"
"typchk"
"traceback"
"toc"
"ldinfo"
For PE, the available options are:
"header"
"sections"
Not all object formats support this option. In particular the ELF
format does not use it.
-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. As for -r, if used with -d or -D, the relocations are
printed interspersed with the disassembly.
-s
--full-contents
Display the full contents of sections, often used in combination
with -j to request specific sections. By default all non-empty non-
bss sections are displayed. By default any compressed section will
be displayed in its compressed form. In order to see the contents
in a decompressed form add the -Z option to the command line.
-S
--source
Display source code intermixed with disassembly, if possible.
Implies -d.
--show-all-symbols
When disassembling, show all the symbols that match a given address,
not just the first one.
--source-comment[=txt]
Like the -S option, but all source code lines are displayed with a
prefix of txt. Typically txt will be a comment string which can be
used to distinguish the assembler code from the source code. If txt
is not provided then a default string of "# " (hash followed by a
space), will be used.
--prefix=prefix
Specify prefix to add to the absolute paths when used with -S.
--prefix-strip=level
Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired
absolute paths. It has no effect without --prefix=prefix.
--show-raw-insn
When disassembling instructions, print the instruction in hex as
well as in symbolic form. This is the default except when
--prefix-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.
--insn-width=width
Display width bytes on a single line when disassembling
instructions.
--visualize-jumps[=color|=extended-color|=off]
Visualize jumps that stay inside a function by drawing ASCII art
between the start and target addresses. The optional =color
argument adds color to the output using simple terminal colors.
Alternatively the =extended-color argument will add color using 8bit
colors, but these might not work on all terminals.
If it is necessary to disable the visualize-jumps option after it
has previously been enabled then use visualize-jumps=off.
--disassembler-color=off
--disassembler-color=terminal
--disassembler-color=on|color|colour
--disassembler-color=extened|extended-color|extened-colour
Enables or disables the use of colored syntax highlighting in
disassembly output. The default behaviour is determined via a
configure time option. Note, not all architectures support colored
syntax highlighting, and depending upon the terminal used, colored
output may not actually be legible.
The on argument adds colors using simple terminal colors.
The terminal argument does the same, but only if the output device
is a terminal.
The extended-color argument is similar to the on argument, but it
uses 8-bit colors. These may not work on all terminals.
The off argument disables colored disassembly.
-W[lLiaprmfFsoORtUuTgAckK]
--dwarf[=rawline,=decodedline,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=aranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=str-offsets,=loc,=Ranges,=pubtypes,=trace_info,=trace_abbrev,=trace_aranges,=gdb_index,=addr,=cu_index,=links,=follow-links]
Displays the contents of the DWARF debug sections in the file, if
any are present. Compressed debug sections are automatically
decompressed (temporarily) before they are displayed. If one or
more of the optional letters or words follows the switch then only
those type(s) of data will be dumped. The letters and words refer
to the following information:
"a"
"=abbrev"
Displays the contents of the .debug_abbrev section.
"A"
"=addr"
Displays the contents of the .debug_addr section.
"c"
"=cu_index"
Displays the contents of the .debug_cu_index and/or
.debug_tu_index sections.
"f"
"=frames"
Display the raw contents of a .debug_frame section.
"F"
"=frames-interp"
Display the interpreted contents of a .debug_frame section.
"g"
"=gdb_index"
Displays the contents of the .gdb_index and/or .debug_names
sections.
"i"
"=info"
Displays the contents of the .debug_info section. Note: the
output from this option can also be restricted by the use of the
--dwarf-depth and --dwarf-start options.
"k"
"=links"
Displays the contents of the .gnu_debuglink, .gnu_debugaltlink
and .debug_sup sections, if any of them are present. Also
displays any links to separate dwarf object files (dwo), if they
are specified by the DW_AT_GNU_dwo_name or DW_AT_dwo_name
attributes in the .debug_info section.
"K"
"=follow-links"
Display the contents of any selected debug sections that are
found in linked, separate debug info file(s). This can result
in multiple versions of the same debug section being displayed
if it exists in more than one file.
In addition, when displaying DWARF attributes, if a form is
found that references the separate debug info file, then the
referenced contents will also be displayed.
Note - in some distributions this option is enabled by default.
It can be disabled via the N debug option. The default can be
chosen when configuring the binutils via the
--enable-follow-debug-links=yes or
--enable-follow-debug-links=no options. If these are not used
then the default is to enable the following of debug links.
Note - if support for the debuginfod protocol was enabled when
the binutils were built then this option will also include an
attempt to contact any debuginfod servers mentioned in the
DEBUGINFOD_URLS environment variable. This could take some time
to resolve. This behaviour can be disabled via the
=do-not-use-debuginfod debug option.
"N"
"=no-follow-links"
Disables the following of links to separate debug info files.
"D"
"=use-debuginfod"
Enables contacting debuginfod servers if there is a need to
follow debug links. This is the default behaviour.
"E"
"=do-not-use-debuginfod"
Disables contacting debuginfod servers when there is a need to
follow debug links.
"l"
"=rawline"
Displays the contents of the .debug_line section in a raw
format.
"L"
"=decodedline"
Displays the interpreted contents of the .debug_line section.
"m"
"=macro"
Displays the contents of the .debug_macro and/or .debug_macinfo
sections.
"o"
"=loc"
Displays the contents of the .debug_loc and/or .debug_loclists
sections.
"O"
"=str-offsets"
Displays the contents of the .debug_str_offsets section.
"p"
"=pubnames"
Displays the contents of the .debug_pubnames and/or
.debug_gnu_pubnames sections.
"r"
"=aranges"
Displays the contents of the .debug_aranges section.
"R"
"=Ranges"
Displays the contents of the .debug_ranges and/or
.debug_rnglists sections.
"s"
"=str"
Displays the contents of the .debug_str, .debug_line_str and/or
.debug_str_offsets sections.
"t"
"=pubtype"
Displays the contents of the .debug_pubtypes and/or
.debug_gnu_pubtypes sections.
"T"
"=trace_aranges"
Displays the contents of the .trace_aranges section.
"u"
"=trace_abbrev"
Displays the contents of the .trace_abbrev section.
"U"
"=trace_info"
Displays the contents of the .trace_info section.
Note: displaying the contents of .debug_static_funcs,
.debug_static_vars and debug_weaknames sections is not currently
supported.
--dwarf-depth=n
Limit the dump of the ".debug_info" section to n children. This is
only useful with --debug-dump=info. The default is to print all
DIEs; the special value 0 for n will also have this effect.
With a non-zero value for n, DIEs at or deeper than n levels will
not be printed. The range for n is zero-based.
--dwarf-start=n
Print only DIEs beginning with the DIE numbered n. This is only
useful with --debug-dump=info.
If specified, this option will suppress printing of any header
information and all DIEs before the DIE numbered n. Only siblings
and children of the specified DIE will be printed.
This can be used in conjunction with --dwarf-depth.
--dwarf-check
Enable additional checks for consistency of Dwarf information.
--ctf[=section]
Display the contents of the specified CTF section. CTF sections
themselves contain many subsections, all of which are displayed in
order.
By default, display the name of the section named .ctf, which is the
name emitted by ld.
--ctf-parent=member
If the CTF section contains ambiguously-defined types, it will
consist of an archive of many CTF dictionaries, all inheriting from
one dictionary containing unambiguous types. This member is by
default named .ctf, like the section containing it, but it is
possible to change this name using the
"ctf_link_set_memb_name_changer" function at link time. When
looking at CTF archives that have been created by a linker that uses
the name changer to rename the parent archive member, --ctf-parent
can be used to specify the name used for the parent.
--ctf-parent-section=section
This option lets you pick a completely different section for the CTF
parent dictionary containing unambiguous types than for the child
dictionaries that contain the ambiguous remainder. The linker does
not emit ELF objects structured like this, but some third-party
linkers may. It's also convenient to inspect CTF written out as
multiple raw files to compose them with objcopy, which can put them
in different ELF sections but not in different members of a single
CTF dict.
--sframe[=section]
Display the contents of the specified SFrame section.
By default, display the name of the section named .sframe, which is
the name emitted by ld.
-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, although the display format
is different. The format of the output depends upon the format of
the file being dumped, but there are two main types. One looks like
this:
[ 4](sec 3)(fl 0x00)(ty 0)(scl 3) (nx 1) 0x00000000 .bss
[ 6](sec 1)(fl 0x00)(ty 0)(scl 2) (nx 0) 0x00000000 fred
where the number inside the square brackets is the number of the
entry in the symbol table, the sec number is the section number, the
fl value are the symbol's flag bits, the ty number is the symbol's
type, the scl number is the symbol's storage class and the nx value
is the number of auxiliary entries associated with the symbol. The
last two fields are the symbol's value and its name.
The other common output format, usually seen with ELF based files,
looks like this:
00000000 l d .bss 00000000 .bss
00000000 g .text 00000000 fred
Here the first number is the symbol's value (sometimes referred to
as its address). The next field is actually a set of characters and
spaces indicating the flag bits that are set on the symbol. These
characters are described below. Next is the section with which the
symbol is associated or *ABS* if the section is absolute (ie not
connected with any section), or *UND* if the section is referenced
in the file being dumped, but not defined there.
After the section name comes another field, a number, which for
common symbols is the alignment and for other symbol is the size.
Finally the symbol's name is displayed.
The flag characters are divided into 7 groups as follows:
"l"
"g"
"u"
"!" The symbol is a local (l), global (g), unique global (u),
neither global nor local (a space) or both global and local (!).
A symbol can be neither local or global for a variety of
reasons, e.g., because it is used for debugging, but it is
probably an indication of a bug if it is ever both local and
global. Unique global symbols are a GNU extension to the
standard set of ELF symbol bindings. For such a symbol the
dynamic linker will make sure that in the entire process there
is just one symbol with this name and type in use.
"w" The symbol is weak (w) or strong (a space).
"C" The symbol denotes a constructor (C) or an ordinary symbol (a
space).
"W" The symbol is a warning (W) or a normal symbol (a space). A
warning symbol's name is a message to be displayed if the symbol
following the warning symbol is ever referenced.
"I"
"i" The symbol is an indirect reference to another symbol (I), a
function to be evaluated during reloc processing (i) or a normal
symbol (a space).
"d"
"D" The symbol is a debugging symbol (d) or a dynamic symbol (D) or
a normal symbol (a space).
"F"
"f"
"O" The symbol is the name of a function (F) or a file (f) or an
object (O) or just a normal symbol (a space).
-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.
The output format is similar to that produced by the --syms option,
except that an extra field is inserted before the symbol's name,
giving the version information associated with the symbol. If the
version is the default version to be used when resolving unversioned
references to the symbol then it's displayed as is, otherwise it's
put into parentheses.
--special-syms
When displaying symbols include those which the target considers to
be special in some way and which would not normally be of interest
to the user.
-U [d|i|l|e|x|h]
--unicode=[default|invalid|locale|escape|hex|highlight]
Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded multibyte characters in
strings. The default (--unicode=default) is to give them no special
treatment. The --unicode=locale option displays the sequence in the
current locale, which may or may not support them. The options
--unicode=hex and --unicode=invalid display them as hex byte
sequences enclosed by either angle brackets or curly braces.
The --unicode=escape option displays them as escape sequences
(\uxxxx) and the --unicode=highlight option displays them as escape
sequences highlighted in red (if supported by the output device).
The colouring is intended to draw attention to the presence of
unicode sequences where they might not be expected.
-V
--version
Print the version number of objdump and exit.
-x
--all-headers
Display all available header information, including the symbol table
and relocation entries. Using -x is equivalent to specifying all of
-a -f -h -p -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.
-z
--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.
-Z
--decompress
The -Z option is meant to be used in conunction with the -s option.
It instructs objdump to decompress any compressed sections before
displaying their contents.
@file
Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted
in place of the original @file option. If file does not exist, or
cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not
removed.
Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace character
may be included in an option by surrounding the entire option in
either single or double quotes. Any character (including a
backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be included
with a backslash. The file may itself contain additional @file
options; any such options will be processed recursively.
SEE ALSO
nm(1), readelf(1), and the Info entries for binutils.
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