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ABI-DUMPER(1) User Commands ABI-DUMPER(1)

NAME

abi-dumper - 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 (0.99.8) 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.
-lv|-lver 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.
-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.
-mem
Try to optimize system memory usage.
-dir
Show full paths of source files.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Written by Andrey Ponomarenko.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 ROSA Laboratory License: LGPL or GPL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it.
April 2014 abi-dumper Dumper 0.99.8