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A toy program to teach myself more about the mach-o file format. Right now, it roughly does what `dsymutil -s` does (which is a bit more than `nm`), but worse. Demo ---- But one can already see interesting things with this tool. See symbols in `lssym` (like with `nm`, but with some `otool -l` thrown in): clang -o lssym lssym.c -Wall ./lssym lssym See what's left after stripping: strip lssym ./lssym lssym (Compare with the output of `nm lssym` and `dsymutil -s lssym` in both cases. Note that `strip` adds a symbol that looks like radr://5614542 N_STAB 3c n_sect 000 n_desc 0x0000 n_value 0x5614542 I wonder what that bug is. `nm` doesn't list it because `nm` only lists symbols, and this is a stabs debug info entry which `nm` only shows if you pass `-a`.) Now build with debug info: clang -o lssym lssym.c -Wall -gdwarf-2 ./lssym lssym Note that the file now includes stabs debug info, even though we asked for dwarf. `dsymutil lssym` complains about a temporary `.o` file. Let's break up compile and link step: clang -c lssym.c -Wall -gdwarf-2 clang -o lssym lssym.o dsymutil lssym ./lssym lssym # Still contains stabs entries. dwarfdump lssym.dSYM # But this finds dwarf info now, too. dwarfdump lssym.o # So does this. dwarfdump lssym # This doesn't. If you don't want `ld` to write stabs info (since you have a dSYM, it's pointless, and might slow down the `ld` step), link like this: clang -o lssym lssym.o -Wl,-S If you pass `-Wl,-s` instead, `ld` will claim that `-s` is obsolete and ignored, but still still strip all symbols that can be stripped (after first writing them as far as I understand -- so that probably doesn't help with linker performance). Related tools ------------- * `dyldinfo` can show relocation info (`man dyldinfo` works, but dyldinfo isn't in my path for some reason -- `xcrun dyldinfo` finds it though) - e.g. -exports, -opcodes, ... * `dyld_info` is apparently different from `dyldinfo`, and can print chained relocs, dependent librarys, opcodes, ... (and it doesn't need `xcrun`) * `dwarfdump` shows dwarf debug data * `dsymutil` can show symbol tables (`-s`) and link dwarf debug info from .o files into a single .dSYM file. * `nm` shows references symbols; a subset of `dsymutil -s` output. * `otool -l` all load commands in a mach-o file. * `dwarfdump --file-stats lssym` * `atos` * `dwarfdump --lookup` * run programs with `DYLD_PRINT_STATISTICS=1` set (see `man dyld` for more flags) http://wiki.dwarfstd.org/index.php?title=Apple's_%22Lazy%22_DWARF_Scheme
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