ELFDump
What is it?
ELFDump is a command-line utility that provides detailed information
about ELF binaries. It works with executables, shared libraries and
even relocatable object files. The latest version of ELFDump (0.3
as of 20th February 2003) can provide the following information:
- Section details
- Program segment details
- Details on functions
- List of source files used to build the binary
- List of shared object dependencies for the binary
- Details on symbol information for non-stripped binaries
- Dynamic linkage information
- Relocation infomation (Without addends)
Note on Liscensing
ELFDump's source is Public Domain. This means that no restrictions are
placed on how it can be used. However, if you do go on to make something
much better out of the ELFDump code I would appreciate some acknowledgement
in there somewhere.
For ELFDump's output to be meaningful it is advised that you obtain a
copy of the Portable Formats Specification. This document defines the ELF
format (and the DWARF format too and no, that's not a joke) and is the
document that ELFDump was written around. The latest version of this
document can be obtained from
here...
Output samples
Provided here are some samples of ELFDump's output:
Download
Note that from verision 0.2 the source tarballs include three binaries for
test purposes. These include a statically-linked PPC binary, a stripped
SPARC binary and a stripped Intel x86 binary.
Sorry, but the above has been changed. I have decided that including test
binaries adds too much unneccessary size to the final tarballs.
Latest stable version (0.3 20th Feb. 2003)
elfdump-0.3 Source .tar.gz
Previous Versions
elfdump-0.1 Source .tar.gz
elfdump-0.2 Source .tar.gz
Static i386 binary
Of course I am extremely greatful to the folks at sourceforge.net.
Not only for their hosting of the ELFDump project but for their hosting and
all of the other terrific services they provide for FREE to the
Open Source development community.