1 NAME: 2 ABI Dumper a tool to dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info. 3 4 The tool is intended to be used with ABI Compliance Checker tool for tracking 5 ABI changes of a C/C++ library or kernel module. 6 7 The tool is developed by Andrey Ponomarenko: http://abi-laboratory.pro/ 8 9 INSTALL: 10 sudo make install prefix=/usr 11 12 REQUIRES: 13 Perl 5 (5.8 or newer) 14 Elfutils (eu-readelf) 15 Vtable Dumper (1.0 or newer, https://github.com/lvc/vtable-dumper) 16 Universal Ctags 17 18 USAGE: 19 abi-dumper libTest.so -o ABI.dump 20 abi-dumper Module.ko.debug 21 22 EXAMPLES: 23 abi-dumper lib/libssh.so.3 24 abi-dumper drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.debug 25 26 NOTE: 27 Input objects should be compiled with -g -Og additional options to contain DWARF debug info. 28 29 FILTER PUBLIC ABI: 30 abi-dumper libTest.so -public-headers PATH 31 PATH path to the install tree of a library 32 33 ABI CHECK: 34 abi-dumper libTest.so.0 -o ABIv0.dump 35 abi-dumper libTest.so.1 -o ABIv1.dump 36 abi-compliance-checker -l libTest -old ABIv0.dump -new ABIv1.dump 37 38 COMPATIBILITY: 39 ABI Compliance Checker >= 1.99.24 (https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker) 40 41 ADV. USAGE: 42 For advanced usage, see output of --help option. 43
