我需要了解我正在研究的项目的ELF文件布局,并且注意到这些工具的存在。为什么所有Linux发行版都同时包含readelf和objdump?这些工具相互补充吗?我何时更愿意使用一个?
来自binutils / readelf.c:
/* The difference between readelf and objdump: Both programs are capabale of displaying the contents of ELF format files, so why does the binutils project have two file dumpers ? The reason is that objdump sees an ELF file through a BFD filter of the world; if BFD has a bug where, say, it disagrees about a machine constant in e_flags, then the odds are good that it will remain internally consistent. The linker sees it the BFD way, objdump sees it the BFD way, GAS sees it the BFD way. There was need for a tool to go find out what the file actually says. This is why the readelf program does not link against the BFD library - it exists as an independent program to help verify the correct working of BFD. There is also the case that readelf can provide more information about an ELF file than is provided by objdump. In particular it can display DWARF debugging information which (at the moment) objdump cannot. */