[kwlug disc.] how to list *just* executable sections with objdump?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Alex Song wrote:

> >>>>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:33:33 -0500 (EST), rpjday at mindspring.com wrote:
>
>     >   is there an incantation of "objdump" that will let me list just the
>     > headers for the executable sections of an ELF executable?
>
>     >   if i want to see all of the headers, i can use:
>
>     >   $ objdump -h helloworld
>
>     >   if i want to display the contents of all the executable sections, i
>     > can use:
>
>     >   $ objdump -d helloworld
>
>     > but is there an intermediate step where i can get a list of those
>     > sections that are considered "executable" that would be dumped by that
>     > last command?  thanks.
>
>
> Does
>
> objdump -d msgsend | grep Disassembly
>
> meet your need?

yup.  but i guess there's no more direct way to get at that, is there?

rday

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