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]
[-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]
[-m machine⎪--architecture=machine]
[-M options⎪--disassembler-options=options]
[-p⎪--private-headers]
[-r⎪--reloc]
[-R⎪--dynamic-reloc]
[-s⎪--full-contents]
[-W⎪--dwarf]
[-G⎪--stabs]
[-t⎪--syms]
[-T⎪--dynamic-syms]
[-x⎪--all-headers]
[-w⎪--wide]
[--start-address=address]
[--stop-address=address]
[--prefix-addresses]
[--[no-]show-raw-insn]
[--adjust-vma=offset]
[--special-syms]
[-V⎪--version]
[-H⎪--help]
objfile...
DESCRIPTION
objdump displays information about one or more object files. The
options control what particular information to display. This informa‐
tion 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 ar‐
chives, 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,-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 corre‐
spond 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 bfd‐
name. 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 com‐
piler.
-g
--debugging
Display debugging information. This attempts to parse debugging
information stored in the file and print it out using a C like syn‐
tax. Only certain types of debugging information have been imple‐
mented. Some other types are supported by readelf -w.
-e
--debugging-tags
Like -g, but the information is generated in a format compatible
with ctags tool.
-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.
-EB
-EL
--endian={big⎪little}
Specify the endianness of the object files. This only affects dis‐
assembly. 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 exam‐
ple 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.
-H
--help
Print a summary of the options to objdump and exit.
-i
--info
Display a list showing all architectures and object formats avail‐
able 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 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.
-M options
--disassembler-options=options
Pass target specific information to the disassembler. Only sup‐
ported 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.
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 reg‐
ister 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 the x86, some of the options duplicate functions of the -m
switch, but allow finer grained control. Multiple selections from
the following may be specified as a comma separated string.
x86-64, i386 and i8086 select disassembly for the given architec‐
ture. intel and att select between intel syntax mode and AT&T syn‐
tax mode. intel-mnemonic and att-mnemonic select between intel
mnemonic mode and AT&T mnemonic mode. intel-mnemonic implies intel
and att-mnemonic implies att. addr64, addr32, addr16, data32 and
data16 specify the default address size and operand size. These
four options will be overridden if x86-64, i386 or i8086 appear
later in the option string. Lastly, suffix, when in AT&T mode,
instructs the disassembler to print a mnemonic suffix even when the
suffix could be inferred by the operands.
For PPC, booke, booke32 and booke64 select disassembly of BookE
instructions. 32 and 64 select PowerPC and PowerPC64 disassembly,
respectively. e300 selects disassembly for the e300 family. 440
selects disassembly for the PowerPC 440. ppcps selects disassembly
for the paired single instructions of the PPC750CL.
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.
"gpr-names=ABI"
Print GPR (general-purpose register) names as appropriate for
the specified ABI. By default, GPR names are selected accord‐
ing 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 disas‐
semble 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.
-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. By default
all non-empty sections are displayed.
-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 --pre‐
fix-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.
-W
--dwarf
Displays the contents of the DWARF debug sections in the file, if
any are present.
-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 sym‐
bol's type, the scl number is the symbol's storage class and the nx
value is the number of auxilary 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 refered 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"
"!" The symbol is local (l), global (g), neither (a space) or both
(!). 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.
"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 sym‐
bol following the warning symbol is ever referenced.
"I" The symbol is an indirect reference to another symbol (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.
--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.
-V
--version
Print the version number of objdump and exit.
-x
--all-headers
Display all available header information, including the symbol ta‐
ble 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 col‐
umns. 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.
@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 charac‐
ter 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 ALSOnm(1), readelf(1), and the Info entries for binutils.
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