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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Vimal <j.vimal@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Collecting description of types from symbol table
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>>>>> "Vimal" == Vimal  <j.vimal@gmail.com> writes:

Vimal> DWARF standard pointed me to dwarfdump, which seems to dump the type
Vimal> information stored in an object file.

You probably already have readelf, eu-readelf, and/or objdump installed
on your system, all of which can dump DWARF.  They don't emit it in C
style though.

Vimal> pahole is interesting, but it looks like its repository on kernel.org
Vimal> is down.  I'll contact the author.

Most distros package it.

Tom