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NAME

       readelf - Displays information about ELF files.

SYNOPSIS

       readelf [-a|--all]
	       [-h|--file-header]
	       [-l|--program-headers|--segments]
	       [-S|--section-headers|--sections]
	       [-e|--headers]
	       [-s|--syms|--symbols]
	       [-n|--notes]
	       [-r|--relocs]
	       [-u|--unwind]
	       [-d|--dynamic]
	       [-V|--version-info]
	       [-A|--arch-specific]
	       [-D|--use-dynamic]
	       [-x <number>|--hex-dump=<number>]
	       [-w[liaprmfFso]|
		--debug-dump[=line,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=ranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=loc]]
	       [-I|-histogram]
	       [-v|--version]
	       [-W|--wide]
	       [-H|--help]
	       elffile...

DESCRIPTION

       readelf displays information about one or more ELF format object files.	The options control what particular information to display.

       elffile... are the object files to be examined.	32-bit and 64-bit ELF files are supported, as are archives containing ELF files.

       This  program  performs	a  similar  function to objdump but it goes into more detail and it exists independently of the BFD library, so if
       there is a bug in BFD then readelf will not be affected.

OPTIONS

       The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are equivalent.  At least one option besides -v or -H must be given.

       -a
       --all
	   Equivalent to specifiying --file-header, --program-headers, --sections, --symbols, --relocs, --dynamic, --notes and --version-info.

       -h
       --file-header
	   Displays the information contained in the ELF header at the start of the file.

       -l
       --program-headers
       --segments
	   Displays the information contained in the file's segment headers, if it has any.

       -S
       --sections
       --section-headers
	   Displays the information contained in the file's section headers, if it has any.

       -s
       --symbols
       --syms
	   Displays the entries in symbol table section of the file, if it has one.

       -e
       --headers
	   Display all the headers in the file.  Equivalent to -h -l -S.

       -n
       --notes
	   Displays the contents of the NOTE segment, if it exists.

       -r
       --relocs
	   Displays the contents of the file's relocation section, if it has one.

       -u
       --unwind
	   Displays the contents of the file's unwind section, if it has one.  Only the unwind sections for IA64  ELF  files  are  currently  sup-
	   ported.

       -u
       --unwind
	   Displays  the  contents  of	the  file's unwind section, if it has one.  Only the unwind sections for IA64 ELF files are currently sup-
	   ported.

       -d
       --dynamic
	   Displays the contents of the file's dynamic section, if it has one.

       -V
       --version-info
	   Displays the contents of the version sections in the file, it they exist.

       -A
       --arch-specific
	   Displays architecture-specific information in the file, if there is any.

       -D
       --use-dynamic
	   When displaying symbols, this option makes readelf use the symbol table in the file's dynamic section, rather than the one in the  sym-
	   bols section.

       -x <number>
       --hex-dump=<number>
	   Displays the contents of the indicated section as a hexadecimal dump.

       -w[liaprmfFso]
       --debug-dump[=line,=info,=abbrev,=pubnames,=ranges,=macro,=frames,=frames-interp,=str,=loc]
	   Displays  the  contents  of	the  debug  sections in the file, if any are present.  If one of the optional letters or words follows the
	   switch then only data found in those specific sections will be dumped.

       -I
       --histogram
	   Display a histogram of bucket list lengths when displaying the contents of the symbol tables.

       -v
       --version
	   Display the version number of readelf.

       -W
       --wide
	   Don't break output lines to fit into 80 columns. By default readelf breaks section header and segment  listing  lines  for  64-bit  ELF
	   files,  so that they fit into 80 columns. This option causes readelf to print each section header resp. each segment one a single line,
	   which is far more readable on terminals wider than 80 columns.

       -H
       --help
	   Display the command line options understood by readelf.

SEE ALSO

       objdump(1), and the Info entries for binutils.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
       any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
       Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWbinutils    |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | External	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for GNU binutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.

binutils-2.14.91						    2004-04-09								READELF(1)