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|    Markus Armbruster to junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in    |
|    Re: interpreting dwarf information from     |
|    24 Jan 08 13:30:45    |
   
   From: armbru@pond.sub.org   
      
   "junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in" writes:   
   > I have to find out the information about all the structures (the   
   > member names, offsets, their type and size etc) from the dwarf   
   > sections in the elf executable.   
   >   
   > Is their any code available thta can print the entire structure   
   > (alongwith its member names) ?   
   >   
   > I would be highly grateful for any pointers/help.   
   > [There must be code in gdb and other debuggers that does so. -John]   
      
   Try pahole, one of the seven dwarves[*]. Fedora has it in package   
   dwarves. I highly recommend the OLS paper[**] describing it.   
      
      
   [*] http://userweb.kernel.org/~acme/dwarves/   
   [**] https://ols2006.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/melo-Reprint.pdf   
      
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