[ale] listing symbols and shared libs in executable

[cshapiro at nubridges.com (Charles Shapiro)]

You might be thinking of nm(1). Works only with unstripped executables
though. Another goodie for this is readelf, which will give great gobs
of information even about a stripped executable:

bash-2.04$ readelf -a /bin/ls | wc -l
    322

It has no man page on my (work) RedHat 7.2 system; use "info binutils"
to find out about it.

Other useful hacking --erm-- research utilities include strings(1),
which dumps every string in a random file and strace(1), which is the
Linux synonym for truss.
Run a program under strace and you'll get out a list of every system
call it makes.

-- CHS

-----Original Message-----
From: John Wells [mailto:jbwellsiv at yahoo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:07 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] listing symbols and shared libs in executable


What's the utility that allows you to get various info
about a c executable (symbols, libs, etc) ?

Thanks!

John

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