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Display information about an ELF binary

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readelf

QNX SDP8.0Utilities ReferenceUtilities

Display information about an ELF binary

Syntax:

readelf_variant [options] elffile…

where readelf_variant depends on the target platform, as follows:


Target platform	`readelf_variant`
AArch64	ntoaarch64-readelf
x86 64-bit	ntox86_64-readelf

Runs on:

Linux, Microsoft Windows

Options:

See the Binutils documentation on the GNU website at https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/.

Description:

The readelf utility displays information about one or more ELF format object files. For more information, see the Binutils documentation on the GNU website at https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/.

Contributing author:

GNU

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