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maybe i should set up some internet parental controls to stop me from learning about the DWARF spec

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i bit the bullet on this, finally. glad i did. integrated elfutils in a lua based test system for an embedded device to read out data structures on the device to compute pre/post conditions. lua was great to explore the rather arcane data structures.

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bindings are here github.com/zwizwa/uc_tool and lua/lib/elfutils.lua

uc_tools/elfutils_lua51.c at exo · zwizwa/uc_tools

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and it goes without saying i did NOT read the spec apart from looking up a couple of things. just elfutils header and code spelunking + online use examples, and dwarfdump to get an idea of structure for specific elf

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