LLVM-OTOOL(1)

💅 LLVM-OTOOL(1) — bestie's guide to the Mach-O dumping tool

okay so welcome to llvm-otool, a lil tool from the LLVM squad (that's the manual section 1 btw, for the girlies keeping track of their man page sections ✨). She dumps Mach-O files. That's her whole thing. And she's so good at it.

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✨ NAME ✨

llvm-otool — Mach-O dumping tool 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

llvm-otool [option...] [file...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So llvm-otool is a tool for dumping Mach-O files. That's it, that's the job. 💁

And here's the tea: she tries to be command-line-compatible and output-compatible with macOS's otool. Like, she's out here matching otool's energy on both the flags you type and the output you get back. Compatibility queen. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay bestie, this is the long part, but every single one matters, no skipping:

• -arch <value> — pick which slice of a universal Mach-O file you wanna look at.
• -chained_fixups — print the chained fixup info.
• -C — print linker optimization hints.
• -dyld_info — print bind and rebase info.
• -D — print the shared library id.
• -d — print the data section.
• -f — print universal headers.
• -G — print the data-in-code table.
• --help-hidden — print help for the hidden flags (yes, there are secret flags, iykyk 🙈).
• --help — print help.
• -h — print the mach header.
• -I — print the indirect symbol table.
• -j — print opcode bytes.
• -L — print the shared libraries that are used.
• -l — print load commands.
• -mcpu=<value> — pick the cpu for disassembly.
• -o — print the Objective-C segment.
• -P — print the __TEXT,__info_plist section as strings.
• -p <function name> — start disassembling at <function name>.
• -r — print relocation entries.
• -s <segname> <sectname> — print the contents of a section (you give it the segment name and the section name, two args, no cap).
• -t — print the text section.
• --version — print version.
• -V — symbolize the disassembled operands. (she implies -v, so it's a two-for-one situation 💅)
• -v — verbose output / disassemble when printing text sections.
• -X — omit the leading addresses or headers.
• -x — print all text sections.
• @<FILE> — read command-line options and commands from the response file <FILE>.

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🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

llvm-otool bails out with a non-zero exit code if there's an error. No error? She exits with code 0. Clean. Immaculate. Periodt. ✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? bestie please tell the devs, don't just suffer in silence 😭 go here:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/labels/tools:llvm-objdump/

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• llvm-nm(1)
• llvm-objdump(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). They're doing the lord's work fr fr. 🫶

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

2003-2025, LLVM Project

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was LLVM-OTOOL(1) from LLVM version 20, dated 2025-09-03 🌸 go dump some Mach-O files, you absolute icon, and remember: compatibility is the vibe 💖✨🎀