NAME: ABI Dumper — a tool to dump ABI 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. The tool is developed by Andrey Ponomarenko: http://abi-laboratory.pro/ INSTALL: sudo make install prefix=/usr REQUIRES: Perl 5 (5.8 or newer) Elfutils (eu-readelf) Vtable Dumper (1.0 or newer, https://github.com/lvc/vtable-dumper) Universal Ctags USAGE: abi-dumper libTest.so -o ABI.dump abi-dumper Module.ko.debug EXAMPLES: abi-dumper lib/libssh.so.3 abi-dumper drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.debug NOTE: Input objects should be compiled with -g -Og additional options to contain DWARF debug info. FILTER PUBLIC ABI: abi-dumper libTest.so -public-headers PATH PATH — path to the install tree of a library ABI CHECK: abi-dumper libTest.so.0 -o ABIv0.dump abi-dumper libTest.so.1 -o ABIv1.dump abi-compliance-checker -l libTest -old ABIv0.dump -new ABIv1.dump COMPATIBILITY: ABI Compliance Checker >= 1.99.24 (https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker) ADV. USAGE: For advanced usage, see output of --help option.