Zig's ELF parsing utility - a replacement (maybe someday) utility for readelf written in Zig.
Usage: zelf [options] file
General Options:
-a, --all Equivalent of having all flags on
-h, --file-header Display ELF file header
-l, --program-headers Display program headers (if present)
-S, --section-headers Display section headers
-s, --symbols Display symbol table
--dyn-syms Display the dynamic symbol table
-r, --relocs Display relocations (if present)
-d, --dynamic Display the dynamic section (if present)
--initializers Display table(s) of initializers/finalizers (if present)
-p, --string-dump=<number|name> Dump the contents of section <number|name> as strings
-V, --version-info Display the version sections (if present)
-W, --wide Do not shorten the names if too wide
-x, --hex-dump=<number|name> Dump the contents of section <number|name> as bytes
--help Display this help and exit
Currently supported flags. More to come.
Typical output will look something like this.
> zelf -a main.o
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: REL (Relocatable file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x0
Start of program headers: 0 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 28208 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 0 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 0
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 23
Section header string table index: 22
There are 23 section headers, starting at offset 0x6e30:
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Offset
Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
[ 0] NULL 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0 0 0
[ 1] .note.gnu.pr[..] NOTE 0000000000000000 0000000000000040
0000000000000040 0000000000000000 A 0 0 8
[ 2] .note.ABI-tag NOTE 0000000000000000 0000000000000080
0000000000000020 0000000000000000 A 0 0 4
[ 3] .text PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000000000000a0
0000000000000031 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 16
[ 4] .rela.text RELA 0000000000000000 0000000000000480
0000000000000030 0000000000000018 I 20 3 8
[ 5] .rodata.cst4 PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000000000000d4
0000000000000004 0000000000000004 AM 0 0 4
[ 6] .eh_frame PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000000000000d8
000000000000005c 0000000000000000 A 0 0 8
[ 7] .rela.eh_frame RELA 0000000000000000 00000000000004b0
0000000000000030 0000000000000018 I 20 6 8
[ 8] .data PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000000000000134
0000000000000004 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
[ 9] .bss NOBITS 0000000000000000 0000000000000138
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
[10] .comment PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000000000000138
0000000000000036 0000000000000001 MS 0 0 1
[11] .note.GNU-stack PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000000000000016e
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0 0 1
[12] .debug_aranges PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000000000004e0
000000000000003b 0000000000000000 C 0 0 8
[13] .rela.debug_[..] RELA 0000000000000000 0000000000000520
0000000000000090 0000000000000018 I 20 12 8
[14] .debug_info PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000000000005b0
00000000000013c4 0000000000000000 C 0 0 8
[15] .rela.debug_info RELA 0000000000000000 0000000000001978
00000000000041d0 0000000000000018 I 20 14 8
[16] .debug_abbrev PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000000000005b48
00000000000001ac 0000000000000000 C 0 0 8
[17] .debug_line PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000000000005cf8
0000000000000313 0000000000000000 C 0 0 8
[18] .rela.debug_line RELA 0000000000000000 0000000000006010
0000000000000030 0000000000000018 I 20 17 8
[19] .debug_str PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000000000006040
0000000000000d1a 0000000000000001 MSC 0 0 8
[20] .symtab SYMTAB 0000000000000000 0000000000000170
0000000000000288 0000000000000018 21 19 8
[21] .strtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 00000000000003f8
0000000000000088 0000000000000000 0 0 1
[22] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 0000000000006d5a
00000000000000d6 0000000000000000 0 0 1
Key to Flags:
W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings), I (info),
L (link order), O (extra OS processing required), G (group), T (TLS),
C (compressed), x (unknown), o (OS specific), E (exclude),
D (mbind), l (large), p (processor specific)
There are no program headers in this file.
Relocation section '.rela.text' at offset 0x480 contains 2 entries:
Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name + Addend
000000000017 00150000002a R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX 0000000000000000 main - 4
00000000001d 001900000029 R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX 0000000000000000 __libc_start_main - 4
Relocation section '.rela.eh_frame' at offset 0x4b0 contains 2 entries:
Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name + Addend
000000000020 000300000002 R_X86_64_PC32 0000000000000000 .text + 0
000000000050 000300000002 R_X86_64_PC32 0000000000000000 .text + 30
Relocation section '.rela.debug_aranges' at offset 0x520 contains 6 entries:
Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name + Addend
000000000006 000b0000000a R_X86_64_32 0000000000000000 .debug_info + 0
000000000010 000300000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000000 .text + 0
000000000036 000b0000000a R_X86_64_32 0000000000000000 .debug_info + 2e
000000000056 000b0000000a R_X86_64_32 0000000000000000 .debug_info + af4
000000000076 000b0000000a R_X86_64_32 0000000000000000 .debug_info + b34
000000000080 000300000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000000 .text + 30
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 27 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1
2: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2
3: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3
4: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 5
5: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 6
6: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 8
7: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 9
8: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 10
9: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 11
10: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 12
11: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 14
12: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 16
13: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 17
14: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 19
15: 0000000000000000 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS abi-note.c
16: 0000000000000000 32 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 2 __abi_tag
17: 0000000000000000 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS init.c
18: 0000000000000000 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS static-reloc.c
19: 0000000000000030 1 FUNC GLOBAL UNKNOWN 3 _dl_relocate_static_pie
20: 0000000000000000 34 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 3 _start
21: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND main
22: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT 8 data_start
23: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
24: 0000000000000000 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 5 _IO_stdin_used
25: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND __libc_start_main
26: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 8 __data_start