I have not been successful in finding an answer on this question. Using GDB, I can use the command "call" to get the prototype of a function. Example: (gdb) call fn $1 = {void (int, int)} 0x80484...

I have a requirement on changing certain symbols from shared library (.so) files like below example: i need to rename symbol abc in .so file to symbol xyz. I have a tool to replace it in header fil...

I have some binary .fic files in a proprietary format , I have a wd250hf64.so from this vendor that contains a C++ method CComposanteHyperFile::HExporteXML(wchar_t* const path) that I can see using...

Here's a very simple C++ program: // main.cpp int main() {} My Makefile generates the following command to compile the program. ❯ make g++ -O0 -fverbose-asm -o main main.cpp I check wit...

As part of trying to write a compiler completely from scratch, I'm currently working on the part the handles ELF files. After skimming through several articles and specifications about them, I sti...

The following is a line from a microprocessor startup file, intended for input into the GNU assembler as: .section .isr_vector,"a",%progbits Does the dot at the beginning of the name .isr_vector...

register_tm_clones and deregister_tm_clones are referencing memory addresses past the end of my RW sections. How is this memory tracked? Example: In the example below deregister_tm_clones referenc...

I have a libTest.so that does not load on some devices. logcat is absolutely useless. Using arm-linux-androideabi-readelf.exe -d libTest.so I was able to see all required libs that libTest.so needs...

I want to read .plt section of an ELF binary and get all the virtual addresses of external functions. Disassembly of section .plt: 0000000000400400 <puts@plt-0x10>: 400400: ff 35 02 0c 20...

For example: <0><b>: Abbrev Number: 1 (DW_TAG_compile_unit) <c> DW_AT_producer : (indirect string, offset: 0xe): GNU C1 1 5.4.0 20160609 -masm=intel -m32 -mtune=generic -march=...

Problem scenario: In simple words, do we have a Trace32 command to read symbols (and its contents) from ELF file that was loaded on to target ? We have this special case where application specific ...

I build a program and it works well(I mean that I can run this program). But when I use "readelf" to check whether there is debug information,errors come: readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has ...

Im writing a script for extracting all the functions (written by user) in a binary. The following shell script extracts my function names as well as some library functions which start with __. read...

I need to get the information about global variables from a compiled c program. I asked a similar question in here. The problem that I have now is that the program where I am trying to extract the...

I need to get the global symbols from a compiled c program file. What I use is the linux command readelf -s filePath when I use that command this is what I get: I draw a blue rectangle to show t...

Suppose we have a shared library named libtest.so, there is one function "foo" in it use the strip to discards all symbols from libtest.so $strip libtest.so so ,now if we use: $nm libtest.so ...

I need to learn about the ELF file layout for a project I am working on and I noticed the existence of these tools. Why do all Linux distributions include both readelf and objdump? Do these tools c...

I'm trying to load an elf file into a MIPS simulator I made. The problem I'm having is that I don't quite understand the meaning behind the elf section header offset. When I do a segment dump, segm...