LLVM-DWARFDUMP(1)

💖 LLVM-DWARFDUMP(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to llvm-dwarfdump from the User Commands manual — yes, the LLVM-DWARFDUMP(1) one, and it's giving debug-info main character energy 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

llvm-dwarfdump — manual page for llvm-dwarfdump 18 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

✨ OVERVIEW ✨

OVERVIEW: pretty-print DWARF debug information in object files and debug info archives. No cap, that's the whole vibe 💖

🎀 USAGE 🎀

USAGE: llvm-dwarfdump [options] <input object files or .dSYM bundles>

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🌈 Color Options 🌈

• --color — use colors in output (default=autodetect) 🎨

⭐ Generic Options ⭐

• --help — display available options (--help-hidden for more) 🙋‍♀️
• --help-list — display list of available options (--help-list-hidden for more) 📋
• --version — display the version of this program 👑

🦋 Section-specific Dump Options 🦋

These control which sections are dumped. Where applicable, these parameters take an optional =<offset> argument to dump only the entry at the specified offset 🎯

• -a — alias for --all ✨
• --all — dump all debug info sections 💖
• --apple-names — dump the .apple_names section 🍎
• --apple-namespaces — dump the .apple_namespaces section 🍎
• --apple-objc — dump the .apple_objc section 🍎
• --apple-types — dump the .apple_types section 🍎
• --debug-abbrev — dump the .debug_abbrev section 🧚
• --debug-addr — dump the .debug_addr section 🧚
• --debug-aranges — dump the .debug_aranges section 🧚
• --debug-cu-index — dump the .debug_cu_index section 🧚
• --debug-frame[=<offset>] — dump the .debug_frame section 🖼️
• --debug-gnu-pubnames — dump the .debug_gnu_pubnames section 🧚
• --debug-gnu-pubtypes — dump the .debug_gnu_pubtypes section 🧚
• --debug-info[=<offset>] — dump the .debug_info section 💜
• --debug-line[=<offset>] — dump the .debug_line section 💜
• --debug-line-str — dump the .debug_line_str section 🧚
• --debug-loc[=<offset>] — dump the .debug_loc section 💜
• --debug-loclists[=<offset>] — dump the .debug_loclists section 💜
• --debug-macro — dump the .debug_macro section 🧚
• --debug-names — dump the .debug_names section 🧚
• --debug-pubnames — dump the .debug_pubnames section 🧚
• --debug-pubtypes — dump the .debug_pubtypes section 🧚
• --debug-ranges — dump the .debug_ranges section 🧚
• --debug-rnglists — dump the .debug_rnglists section 🧚
• --debug-str — dump the .debug_str section 🧚
• --debug-str-offsets — dump the .debug_str_offsets section 🧚
• --debug-tu-index — dump the .debug_tu_index section 🧚
• --debug-types[=<offset>] — dump the .debug_types section 💜
• --eh-frame — alias for --debug-frame 🖼️
• --gdb-index — dump the .gdb_index section 🧚

🍓 Specific Options 🍓

• -F — alias for --show-form 💅
• --arch=<string> — dump debug information for the specified CPU architecture only. Architectures may be specified by name or by number. This option can be specified multiple times, once for each desired architecture 🏗️
• -c — alias for --show-children 👶
• --diff — emit diff-friendly output by omitting offsets and addresses 🪄
• --dwo — dump the non skeleton DIE in the .dwo or .dwp file after dumping the skeleton DIE from the main executable. This allows dumping the .dwo files with resolved addresses 🔥
• -f — alias for --find 🔎
• --find=<name> — search for the exact match for <name> in the accelerator tables and print the matching debug information entries. When no accelerator tables are available, the slower but more complete -name option can be used instead 🕵️‍♀️
• --find-all-apple — print every debug information entry in the accelerator tables 🍎
• -i — alias for --ignore-case 🙈
• --ignore-case — ignore case distinctions when using --name 🫶
• --lookup=<address> — lookup <address> in the debug information and print out any available file, function, block and line table details 📍
• -n — alias for --name 🏷️
• --name=<pattern> — find and print all debug info entries whose name (DW_AT_name attribute) matches the exact text in <pattern>. When used with the -regex option, <pattern> is interpreted as a regular expression 🧐
• -o <filename> — redirect output to the specified file 📝
• -p — alias for --show-parents 👨‍👩‍👧
• --parent-recurse-depth=<N> — only recurse to a depth of N when displaying parents of debug info entries 🌀
• --quiet — use with -verify to not emit to STDOUT 🤫
• -r — alias for --recurse-depth 🔁
• --recurse-depth=<N> — only recurse to a depth of N when displaying children of debug info entries 🌀
• --regex — treat any <pattern> strings as regular expressions when searching with --name. If --ignore-case is also specified, the regular expression becomes case-insensitive 🔤
• --show-children — show a debug info entry's children when selectively printing entries 👶
• --show-form — show DWARF form types after the DWARF attribute types 📚
• --show-parents — show a debug info entry's parents when selectively printing entries 👨‍👩‍👧
• --show-section-sizes — show the sizes of all debug sections, expressed in bytes 📏
• --show-sources — show the sources across all compilation units 🌍
• --statistics — emit JSON-formatted debug info quality metrics 📊
• --summarize-types — abbreviate the description of type unit entries ✂️
• -u — alias for --uuid 🆔
• --uuid — show the UUID for each architecture 🆔
• -v — alias for --verbose 🗣️
• --verbose — print more low-level encoding details 🔍
• --verify — verify the DWARF debug info ✅
• -x — alias for --regex 🔤

Pass @FILE as argument to read options from FILE 📄

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