<OT> interpreting dwarf sections form elf binary

[junky_fellow]

Guys,

Extremely sorry for posting something that is not related to c
programming. Actually, I did a lot of search but failed to find
something useful.
Is anyone aware of any utility (with source code) that can interpret
the dwarf debugging information from an elf executable and print the
structure information. (all the members of structure, their offsets
and names, their types and size).

I would be highly grateful for any pointer to any link.

[Richard Bos]

"ju**********@yahoo.co.in" <ju**********@yahoo.co.inwrote:

Is anyone aware of any utility (with source code) that can interpret
the dwarf debugging information from an elf executable

Yes. NetHack. Source is available from <http://www.nethack.org/>.

HTH; HAND.

Richard

[Spoon]

Junky Fellow wrote:

Extremely sorry for posting something that is not related to C
programming.

You know your message is inappropriate for this newsgroup, yet you
post anyway? (For the record, your post would have been topical in
comp.unix.programmer)

Actually, I did a lot of search but failed to find something useful.

Wikipedia is often a good starting point.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWARF )

Is anyone aware of any utility (with source code) that can interpret
the dwarf debugging information from an elf executable and print the
structure information. (all the members of structure, their offsets
and names, their types and size).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWARF#External_links

[Richard Tobin]

In article <99**********************************@e4g2000hsg.g ooglegroups.com>,
ju**********@yahoo.co.in <ju**********@yahoo.co.inwrote:

>Guys,

>Is anyone aware of any utility (with source code) that can interpret
the dwarf debugging information from an elf executable and print the
structure information. (all the members of structure, their offsets
and names, their types and size).

I'd start by looking at the GNU binutils. "objdump -W" looks like
it might do what you want, and if it doesn't you can hack it.

-- Richard
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