NAME

       abi-dumper - a tool to dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info

DESCRIPTION

   NAME:
              ABI Dumper (abi-dumper) Dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info

   DESCRIPTION:
              ABI Dumper is a tool for dumping ABI information of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info.

              The  tool  is  intended  to be used with ABI Compliance Checker tool for tracking ABI changes of a
              C/C++ library or kernel module.

              This tool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms  of  the  GNU
              LGPL or GNU GPL.

   USAGE:
              abi-dumper [options] [object]

   EXAMPLES:
              abi-dumper libTest.so -o ABI.dump abi-dumper Module.ko.debug -o ABI.dump

   INFORMATION OPTIONS:

       -h|-help

              Print this help.

       -v|-version

              Print version information.

       -dumpversion

              Print the tool version (0.99.12) and don't do anything else.

   GENERAL OPTIONS:

       -o|-output PATH

              Path to the output ABI dump file.  Default: ./ABI.dump

       -sort

              Sort data in ABI dump.

       -stdout

              Print ABI dump to stdout.

       -loud

              Print all warnings.

       -vnum NUM

              Set version of the library to NUM.

       -extra-info DIR

              Dump extra analysis info to DIR.

       -bin-only

              Do  not  dump  information  about inline functions, pure virtual functions and non-exported global
              data.

       -all-types

              Dump unused data types.

       -all-symbols

              Dump symbols not exported by the object.

       -symbols-list PATH

              Specify a file with a list of symbols that should be dumped.

       -skip-cxx

              Do not dump stdc++ and gnu c++ symbols.

       -all

              Equal to: -all-types -all-symbols.

       -dump-static

              Dump static (local) symbols.

       -compare OLD.dump NEW.dump

              Show added/removed symbols between two ABI dumps.

       -alt PATH

              Path to the alternate debug info (Fedora). It  is  detected  automatically  from  gnu_debugaltlink
              section of the input object if not specified.

       -dir

              Show full paths of source files.

       -vt-dumper PATH

              Path to the vtable-dumper executable if it is installed to non-default location (not in PATH).

       -public-headers PATH

              Path  to  directory with public header files or to file with the list of header files. This option
              allows to filter out private symbols from the ABI dump.

       -ignore-tags PATH

              Path to ignore.tags file to help ctags tool to read symbols in header files.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
       may be used by others).

       Written by Andrey Ponomarenko.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2015 Andrey Ponomarenko's ABI Laboratory License: LGPL or GPL  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it.

abi-dumper Dumper 0.99.12                         November 2015                                    ABI-DUMPER(1)