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## Name

objdump - display information from object files.

## Synopsis

objdump
  [-a|--archive-headers] [-b bfdname | --target=bfdname] [-C|--demangle] [--debugging] [-d|--disassemble] [-D|--disassemble-all] [--disassemble-zeroes] [-EB|-EL|--endian={big|little}] [-f|--file-headers] [-h|--section-headers | --headers] [-i|--info] [-j section | --section=section] [-l|--line-numbers] [-m machine | --architecture=machine] [-p|--private-headers] [--prefix-addresses] [-r|--reloc] [-R|--dynamic-reloc] [-s|--full-contents] [-S|--source] [--[no-]show-raw-insn] [--stabs] [-t|--syms] [-T|--dynamic-syms] [-x|--all-headers] [--start-address=address] [--stop-address=address] [--adjust-vma=offset] [--version] [--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

Where long and short forms of an option are shown together, they are equivalent. At least one option besides -l (--line-numbers) must be given.

-a
--archive-headers
  If any files from objfile 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 the object-code format for the object files to be bfdname. This may not be necessary; objdump can automatically recognize many formats. For example,

  objdump -b oasys -m vax -h fu.o

  display 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
  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.

--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-headers
  Display summary information from the overall header of each file in objfile.

-h
--section-headers
--headers
  Display summary information from the section headers of the object file.

--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 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.

-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 --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.

--stabs
  Display the contents of the .stab, .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
  Symbol Table. Print the symbol table entries of the file. This is similar to the information provided by the `nm' program.

-T
--dynamic-syms
  Dynamic Symbol Table. 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-headers
  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'.

## See Also

`binutils' entry in info; The GNU Binary Utilities, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); nm(1) .

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