abi-dumper(1) a tool to dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info

DESCRIPTION

NAME:

ABI Dumper (abi-dumper) Dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info

DESCRIPTION:

ABI Dumper is a tool for dumping ABI information of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info.
The tool is intended to be used with ABI Compliance Checker tool for tracking ABI changes of a C/C++ library or kernel module.
This tool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU LGPL or GNU GPL.

USAGE:

abi-dumper [options] [object]

EXAMPLES:

abi-dumper libTest.so -o ABI.dump abi-dumper Module.ko.debug -o ABI.dump

INFORMATION OPTIONS:

-h|-help
Print this help.
-v|-version
Print version information.
-dumpversion
Print the tool version (0.99.15) and don't do anything else.

GENERAL OPTIONS:

-o|-output PATH
Path to the output ABI dump file. Default: ./ABI.dump
-sort
Sort data in ABI dump.
-stdout
Print ABI dump to stdout.
-loud
Print all warnings.
-vnum NUM
Set version of the library to NUM.
-extra-info DIR
Dump extra analysis info to DIR.
-bin-only
Do not dump information about inline functions, pure virtual functions and non-exported global data.
-all-types
Dump unused data types.
-all-symbols
Dump symbols not exported by the object.
-symbols-list PATH
Specify a file with a list of symbols that should be dumped.
-skip-cxx
Do not dump stdc++ and gnu c++ symbols.
-all
Equal to: -all-types -all-symbols.
-dump-static
Dump static (local) symbols.
-compare OLD.dump NEW.dump
Show added/removed symbols between two ABI dumps.
-alt PATH
Path to the alternate debug info (Fedora). It is detected automatically from gnu_debugaltlink section of the input object if not specified.
-dir
Show full paths of source files.
-vt-dumper PATH
Path to the vtable-dumper executable if it is installed to non-default location (not in PATH).
-public-headers PATH
Path to directory with public header files or to file with the list of header files. This option allows one to filter out private symbols from the ABI dump.
-ignore-tags PATH
Path to ignore.tags file to help ctags tool to read symbols in header files.
-kernel-export
Dump symbols exported by the Linux kernel and modules, i.e. symbols declared in the ksymtab section of the object and system calls.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Written by Andrey Ponomarenko.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016 Andrey Ponomarenko's ABI Laboratory License: LGPL or GPL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it.