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Introduction

libdwarf and dwarfdump are Free Software.

Please consider making a donation to support the libdwarf/dwarfdump project.

If someone can put me in contact with the original author (Crablicious) of the libdwarf-addr2line github project somehow I would appreciate it. Thanks.

The distribution consists of C and C++ source code that you compile with your C/C++ compiler (documentation is included).

The DWARF Debugging Information Format is of interest to programmers working on compilers and debuggers (and anyone interested in reading or writing DWARF information). It was developed by a committee (known as the PLSIG at the time) starting around 1991. Starting around 1991 SGI got involved with the committee and then developed the libdwarf and dwarfdump tools for SGI-internal use and as part of SGI IRIX developer tools. From around 1993 dwarfdump and libdwarf were shipped (as an executable and archive respectively, not source) with every release of the SGI MIPS/IRIX C compiler. In 1994 (I think the correct year) SGI agreed (at my request) to open-source libdwarf (and in 1999 to open-source dwarfdump) so anyone could use them.

BIG-ENDIAN system support has been provided by the IBM linuxone project starting in 2019. We now can test on a big-endian s390 system in a Linux VM. Thank you IBM. As of 06 October 2019 libdwarf dwarfdump and readelfobj/readobjpe/readobjmacho pass -all- tests on an IBM big endian machine, one is happy to report. Please advise of anything not working correctly!

In May 2019 we made the first release (20190505) with the option of building libdwarf and dwarfdump without any libelf. In November we implemented comprehensive testing across a variety of OSs and machines.

In September 2021 we fixed every problem Coverity Scan could find, and we continue to have zero defects.

License terms are mostly GPL (version 2) or LGPL (version 2.1). A few files use the FreeBSD (2-clause BSD) terms. The details are discussed in the license page.

DWARF specifications and the dwarf email forums are at http://www.dwarfstd.org. You can sign up for an email discussion list there.

Email about libdwarf and dwarfdump may be sent to libdwarf -at- linuxmail -dot- org (replace -at- and -dot- with the normal single characters to form the email address). [top]

Critical Vulnerabilities

Beginning May 4, 2014 a number of critical vulnerabilities in libdwarf and dwarfdump were reported as a result of fuzzing. Critical because these lead to serious difficulties where the application calling libdwarf could crash (segfault, etc), leading to a Denial of Service.

Then, starting in January 2023 a whole new set of tests for vulnerabilities, using direct calls to the API, were created. The fuzzer-library functions (the test source with the API calls being tested) are in the libdwarf-code/fuzz directory.

All the known vulnerabilities have been fixed.

For a list of the known vulnerabilities see https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html

https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.xml is an xml version of the same data.

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How Do We Ensure Libdwarf Works Consistently

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Coverity Scan Build Status    Coverity Scan uses synthetic execution to look for defects.

CI status all builds   ci builds on Linux, Freebsd, MacOS, and Windows msys2 using configure, cmake, and meson.

Regression testing runs about twenty thousand checks comparing the last good dwarfdump versus the latest version. With all dwarfdump options exercised to touch as many code paths in libdwarf as possible. And involving numerous corrupted objects to check error code paths.

The regression tests are run in 32-bit and 64-bit environments (machines or virtual machines). Most environments are little-endian but one environment is 64-bit big-endian.

Running scripts/buildandreleasetest.sh demonstrates that a build and a test release libdwarf-<version>.xz and then build out of the a test release works and a second release build of libdwarf-<version>.xz from the first such contains the same files as the initial libdwarf-<version>.xz The script verifies cmake (with some cmake options tested) and meson work out of the test release too.

After relevant pushes to github we run a github workflow as an independent verification things build. The status of each test is shown above.

Coverity Scan is run before every release (and sometimes more frequently) to ensure there are no faults found by its synthetic execution of the source code.

An open source tool named github.com/nimble-code/Cobra does source scanning and finds instances of C coding that is not following best-practices. For example, it finds macro arguments are not inside parentheses at the use inside the macro. It detects many different things, reporting where best-practices were overlooked. Sometimes its pattern-matching mentions things that are not real issues, so one has to apply judgement. But it's quite useful. The best-practices lead to greater code consistency and readability (and sometimes reveal a bug).

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New with Semantic Versioning

Change Release ID Format: Semantic Versioning

Up through mid-2021 releases were identified by an ISO date such as 20210528. This makes the release date clear but gives no clue what the differences are between releases.

Transitioning from ISO date to semantic versioning is be done in a way that will be generally understood, a way consistent with standard practice.

Semantic versioning, a more standard release id, is a triple of numbers like x.y.z meaning major.minor.micro (some projects add suffixes). See Software Versioning. Also see the formal definition in semver.org

If api is changed or removed, ++major, minor = micro = 0
If api is added ++minor, micro = 0
If bug is fixed ++micro

This form makes clear the changes.

Since mid-2021 libdwarf verioning has been exclusively Semantic Versioning.

Once libdwarf has a stable API the version will change from 0.n.m to 2.n.m because with date versioning gcc generated shared objects as 1.0.0 so those wishing to have multiple versions present want 1.x.x reserved.

Package Config (.pc) file

It's now common for libraries to provide a .pc file which provides useful information for library builders and library users. See the pkg-config command and Pkg-config on wikipedia.

Restructure Source Tree -done

During the conversion to Semantic Versioning in 2021 the source tree was converted to the mostly-standard source structure shown here.

  libdwarf-code/
    src/
      lib/   (libdwarf, libdwarfp)
      bin/   (dwarfdump, dwarfexample, ...)
    bugxml/  (library vulnerability data)
    doc/     (documentation)
    fuzz/    (oss-fuzz test functions)
    scripts/ (build and release tests)
    test/    (libdwarf/dwarfdump sanity tests)
    tools/   (maintainer tool)

Meson build system -done

The Meson build system is python-like, is much much faster than configure or cmake, and is easier to work with once one is past an initial learning curve.

Eliminate Old Producer Interfaces -done

The original functional interfaces to create DWARF data, the producer interfaces required casting to determine success/failure. The old ugly requires-casting interfaces have been removed.

Eliminate Old Consumer(reader) Interfaces -done

Many consumer interfaces appear in multiple versions. For example, dwarf_next_cu_header(), dwarf_next_cu_header_b() dwarf_next_cu_header_c(), and dwarf_next_cu_header_d(). In all cases the one with highest letter (_d in this example) will be kept and the earlier ones were deleted as the earlier ones do not handle all of DWARF<n> for some <n>.

In nearly every case the differences are very small: The addition of an argument to handle a DWARF Standard change was the motivation for all of them, and in many cases simply passing 0 for the new argument works like the older versions (though that is not recommended practice since it won't deal with some recent DWARF5 fully).

Eliminate Old configure options -done

The following are no longer used or needed: HAVE_OLD_FRAME_CFA_COL and HAVE_SGIDEFS_H HAVE_ELF_OPEN HAVE_GLOBAL_ALLOC_SUMS HAVE_NONSTANDARD_PRINTF_64_FORMAT HAVE_SGI_IRIX_OFFSETS HAVE_STRICT_DWARF2_32BIT_OFFSET HAVE_DWARF2_99_EXTENSION In addition HAVE_STDLIB_H HAVE_STDDEF_H HAVE_STRING_H are no longer needed, those are standard headers beginning with C89/C90 so are assumed present.

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Tsearch searching resource

Because tsearch() itself is not universally available (and even when tsearch() is available tdestroy() is sometimes not available) I implemented some tree algorithms using the standard tsearch interface definitions.

For more information see the tsearch page

See https://github.com/davea42/tsearch-code

The basic four tsearch standard interface declarations are quite old, traditional, incompletely documented, hard to use, and not at all what anyone would design as an interface today. But these four functions are declared in the Posix/SingleUnixSpecification standard so we support them.

The algorithms implemented are binary tree, binary tree with Eppinger delete, balanced binary tree, red black tree, and a hashing (non-tree) version). The function interfaces implemented include tsearch(), tdelete(), tdestroy(), tfind(), and twalk().

To avoid conflicts with standard library versions all the function names are prefixed with dwarf_. Libdwarf and dwarfdump use the new tsearch.

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Object tools resource

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Four object tools are included. Three print object section header information. They all read object files and report information about the sections and content.

For more information see the readelfobj page

See https://github.com/davea42/readelfobj-code for the README and to download a release.

readelfobj prints Elf object headers. It has options to print details on more than just section headers.

readobjmacho prints MachO object headers relevant to DWARF information.

readobjpe prints PE (Windows) object headers. relevant to DWARF information.

object_detector decides if a given object is Elf, MachO, or PE and returns information saying which format it is or reports the format is unknown.

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libdwarf codingstyle checker

The indent-checking tool dicheck is useful in case you make source changes and want to preserve proper libdwarf indentation. See more details on the github page for the tool. Clone a copy of the source code with
"git clone https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-dicheck"
which creates and populates a directory named "libdwarf-dicheck".

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Building libdwarf

Note about distribution contents

All libdwarf distributions contain C source plus the DWARF2 specification plus libdwarf specifications. Implementors often extend DWARF by adding new attributes and other things. Those that we are aware of are defined in dwarf.h which is provided here for reference. If you have corrections or additions, please let me know! The file is in every distribution of libdwarf.

Anonymous Git Access

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libdwarf/dwarfdump source

Beginning 14 May 2021 libdwarf source code is available via anonymous access from github with the project history that was on Sourceforge. Sourceforge no longer contains libdwarf source.

"git clone https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code"
initializes a git repository in the local directory it will create named "code" and populates it with the most up to date libdwarf source. See the README and README.md for the new June 2021 build instructions.

Since github has programmable APIs you may wish to switch to accessing the project from github.
Since 19 March 2011 libdwarf source code has been available via anonymous access with git from SourceForge.net. As of June 2021 those wishing to see the latest should use github.com as the source because sourceforge.net is not up to date with the libdwarf source. The git source code is the reference source: it may have features or fixes not in a tar.xz release, but if so the features or fixes are not needed by most people. Top-of-trunk code in the git repository has been fully tested. See the github clone command above.

Here is a complete build example using github. Note that these instructions are not up to date with top of trunk. To save space here, we are not building optional programs and not doing any checking for failure at any step. In some environments configure options may be necessary, but none are shown in this example. Later sections here on building show some additional configure options.

# github example
git clone https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code
# See a README in the distribution for further instructions.

Object File Tools

Some small object tools are available in source via anonymous access. See the readelfobj page for details.

The libdwarf/dwarfdump regression tests (which you really don't need or want) are available via
"git clone https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-regressiontests"
which creates and populates a directory named "regressiontests". The "regressiontests" directory should appear in the same directory as the "code" source code directory as the regression test scripts reach around to the source at certain points. As of 09 November 2020 the regression tests can be run in a temporary directory with something like

mkdir /tmp/dwtests
cd /tmp/dwtests
/path-to/regressiontests/configure
make

Building and Testing libdwarf

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Building libdwarf

The libdwarf build process involves a simple traditional approach (at least for personal use, people generating binary releases or a corporate library will have their own internal requirements to consider). In the base directory of the source distribution (either expanded from a tar.gz or from git) do the following:

./configure
make

If all goes well, this will build libdwarf and dwarfdump.

It's common to do the build in a separate directory. As an example of building all the executables using a separate directory, do something like:

# Assuming the source top-level is in /path/to/libdwarf-20180809
mkdir /tmp/bld
cd /tmp/bld
/path/to/libdwarf-20180809/configure --enable-dwarfexample --enable-dwarfgen
make

which will build libdwarf, dwarfdump, dwarfgen, and dwarfexample in a minute or two. You don't need dwarfgen or dwarfexample. If libdwarf and dwarfdump complete their build you have most of the functionality you need. dwarfdump (written in C) lets you dump out, in readable form, the DWARF2, DWARF3, DWARF4, and some DWARF5 data from an object file. (the DWARF5 standard was released on dwarfstd.org in February 2017).

There are some prerequisites you must have installed on your build machine:

C compiler (Conformant with the 1989 or later C standard.
  Support for the 'long long' datatype is required.)
C++ compiler (only needed to build dwarfgen)
libelf is optional (however it is required to build dwarfgen)
zlib (if your compiler uses compressed sections) 
See the top-level README in the source for
specific references for libelf and zlib.

Contact the libdwarf email address before attempting to contribute any code.

On Windows Use of one of the POSIX-like environments like mingw or cygwin or the like will ease your way. You may find cmake very useful on Windows.

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Testing libdwarf

The regression test build process involves rather more work, and few will want to bother with it. There is no tar.gz available, you have to use git. In the base directory of the regressiontests distribution do the following (if the base of the libdwarf source tree is at ../code this should work, but if not see the regressiontests/README.txt file):

Rather than keeping known-good output in the regression-tests, we keep a dwarfdump.O (O for Old) to compare its output against the new dwarfdump. We do it this way as the test output is much too large to save.

To run the dwarfextract test successfully, bfd.h needs to be installed in a standard place, so install binutils-dev (or the equivalent for your release) to get bfd.h. We do not link to the bfd library.

In the regressiontests directory do the following.

./configure
make

In the code directory there is a test script that does all the tests including building releases, using cmake and more as well as running the regression tests.

sh scripts/run-all-tests.sh >& /tmp/results
# The following is a passing run.
grep FAIL /tmp/results
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
FAIL 0
FAIL 0
FAIL 0
FAIL 0 in run-all-tests.sh

grep FAIL /tmp/results should show all zeros (there should be about 18 lines)

On a modern 3GHz-cpu Linux environment running directly on the host the tests should run in about 35 minutes and the final message should say PASS. Running in a KVM Virtual Machine the tests run in 45 minutes or more. Unless all the components in the libdwarf source build correctly the tests cannot pass.

Unless you are running Ubuntu GNU/Linux or FreeBSD 12 on a i386- or X86_64-compatible cpu you may have more work to do to run the tests, partly because the tests depend on having a known-good version of dwarfdump in the distribution.

If the Ubuntu or FreeBSD dwarfdump executables in the distribution won't run in your test environment you could build dwarfdump.O to run tests:

Releases

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As of release 0.3.1 releases are also available for download from the github libdwarf page

filename, download-link Bytes Reason for release
libdwarf-0.9.1.tar.xz 2677488

Date: 2024-01-27 Altered the type of the return value of dwarf_die_abbrev_code() and dwarf_get_section_count() from int to Dwarf_Unsigned for consistency (should always have been this way). Problems reading Mach-o (Apple) relocatable object files are fixed. All three build systems have a option to turn off use of decompression libraries, see README.md and READMEcmake.md. All type warnings from MSVC are fixed.

md5sum: 744022c8b3c4ff693fbdc3247654400d

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libdwarf-0.9.0.tar.xz 2718492

Date: 2023-12-08 Added support for reading Apple MacOS universal binaries. Added callers access to certain fields from object files (for all three supported object formats), and added the --print-machine-arch option to dwarfdump to show the fields. Three functions were added to the API, see the Changes section of the latest documentation or in libdwarf.pdf in the release. No functions were deleted or had their meaning changed. Vulnerabilities found by fuzzing were fixed. See the dwarfbug page for vulnerability details.

md5sum: 4b36d4b3031f8937b7c408d2eed221ed

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libdwarf-0.8.0.tar.xz 2653240

Date: 2023-09-20 The release fixes many vulnerabilities from corrupt DWARF and/or corrupt Elf. Two new functions are added for DWARF Frame access to get the correct sign of an argument (the pre-existing functions remain in place and working avoiding any need for recompilation or relinking of user code). See the dwarfbug page for vulnerability details.

md5sum: 5fcb91c6be7d99bc5a60c1347e19d0ab

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libdwarf-0.7.0.tar.xz 2506816

Date: 2023-05-20 The release fixes more than 50 vulnerabilities from corrupt DWARF and/or corrupt Elf. See the dwarfbug page for the details. The library now supports Elf with very large numbers of sections (which introduces an incompatibilty for the very few users calling dwarf_object_init_b() and dwarf_object_finish()). This release deletes an unnecessary and unuseable pair of functions reading the .debug_names section. Additional detail on the changes is in the Recent Changes section of libdwarf.pdf and the latest html version.

md5sum: e4310665e6fb5c6389f2df3ca71aad22

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libdwarf-0.6.0.tar.xz 2437352

Date: 2023-02-20 Fixes for Denial Of Service (possible libdwarf crash): The dealloc required for dwarf_offset_list() was incorrect, possibly leading to a crash. The function prototype for dwarf_dietype_offset() changed so it can work correctly on DWARF4 objects. A memory leak from dwarf_load_loclists() has been fixed. The function dwarf_get_pubtypes() changed, Dwarf_Type no longer exists, correcting a library design mistake made in 1993. And the set of functions using Dwarf_Type are gone, use Dwarf_Global instead. An object with DW_FORM_strx3 (DWARF5) could result in the library either crashing or returning an inappropriate error. DW_FORM_strx3 is now handled properly.

md5sum: f076a486baaa19ccf0063a8cefd242df

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libdwarf-0.5.0.tar.xz 2477032

Date: 2022-11-22 The handling of the .debug_abbrev data in libdwarf is now more cpu-efficient (measurably faster) so access to DIEs and attribute lists is faster. Corrects CU and TU indexes in the .debug_names section to be zero based as it is required to be. dwarf_get_globals() now returns a list of Dwarf_Global names and DIE offsets whether such are defined in the .debug_names or .debug_pubnames section or both. A new function, dwarf_global_tag_number(), returns the DW_TAG of any Dwarf_Global that was derived from the .debug_names section. Three new functions enable printing of the .debug_addr table. dwarf_debug_addr_table(), dwarf_debug_addr_by_index(), and dwarf_dealloc_debug_addr_table().

md5sum: a1f0fdb716386f32ebe67430a99aaf77

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libdwarf-0.4.2.tar.xz 2419592

Date: 2022-09-13 Fixed libdwarf crashes in certain fuzzed object files. Fixed all known instances of leaks in dwardump and libdwarf, so neither valgrind nor -fsanitize can find leaks, even when malloc is failing due to running out of memory. dwarfdump no longer prints anything to stderr, all output goes to stdout (libdwarf never prints anything).

md5sum: c61686e6b1b801df7ec830edc365cdfd

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libdwarf-0.4.1.tar.xz 2410800

Date: 2022-06-25. Two places where a carefully corrupted object file could result in libdwarf crashing a caller due to referencing memory outside the intended read area have been fixed (DW202205-001 and DW202206-001). One related to DW_FORM_ref_sig8, the other to the .debug_pubnames section. The library now accepts DW_AT_entry_pc in a CU DIE as a base address when DW_AT_low_pc is missing (an extension used by a current compiler). Added function dwarf_suppress_debuglink_crc() to allow callers to turn off doing a CRC calculation reading GNU debuglink data (saves time for library users accessing near-identical builds).

md5sum: b9dd9cc1378181728c096f186a654ba2

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libdwarf-0.4.0.tar.xz 2380228

Date: 2022-04-12. Made changes to 6 interfaces to make three dealloc functions be named with a pattern consistent with the rest of libdwarf, a function reverted to a pre-DWARF5 version for correctness, and changes to the .debug_names API functions to enable full access to the section. See details in the Recent Changes section of libdwarf.pdf. dwarfdump now prints all the information in .debug_names with --print-debug-names.

md5sum: 46ffe13978494488f1f70bdc46610718

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libdwarf-0.3.4.tar.xz 2345036

Date: 2022-02-23. Fixed a bug in test scripts so 'make check -j8' will work properly. Fixed a bug where reading a PE (Windows) object could fail for certain section virtual size values. Added initializers to two uninitialized local variables in dwarfdump source so a compiler warning will not kill a --enable-wall build. Replaced the libdwarf.pdf content, it is now generated by doxygen and latex and has a proper table of contents and index. Added support for the meson build system. Added dwarfexample/showsectiongroups.c so one can see libdwarf's interpretation of section groups; making it simple to use libdwarf when section groups are important (relevant for Split Dwarf and COMDAT sections).

md5sum: 6e06a645c5a04fd3c03a31f95914e546

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libdwarf-0.3.3.tar.xz 1950556

Date: 2022-01-26. Removed assignment offset = offset as a compiler detected the pointless assign and issued a warning, stopping a -Werror (warnings treated as errors) build of dwarfdump.

md5sum: 09fd01dc8f5500c05cdf2f2d2fad1334

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libdwarf-0.3.2.tar.xz 1983884

Date: 2021-12-25. No API change. Fixed one bug handing certain extended LEB numbers when the producer added padding inside the value (allowing padding is not defined in the standard but is not forbidden either). Moved and renamed many filesso the source directories look much better and cleaner.

md5sum: 4ea5ef08ee6067ea7f7f33c66ebc5b0f

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libdwarf-0.3.1.tar.xz 1989760

Date: 2021-11-24. libdwarf-0.3.1 has improvements in detecting corrupted Elf and MachO object files. The release adds a new function dwarf_get_frame_instruction_a() that enables access to new LLVM frame extension instructions involved in Heterogeneous Debugging (the new instructions have one more operand than any other frame instructions). The existing dwarf_get_frame_instruction() works on all frames and unless one is doing Heterogeneous Debugging one should continue using dwarf_get_frame_instruction(). dwarf_get_frame_instruction() was new in libdwarf-0.3.0 and is the first libdwarf function to enable extracting frame (CIE/FDE) instructions in detail without fiddling with the bit-structure in DWARF frame instructions.

md5sum: 0c862e8bd1df80df6683ec889d8be68d

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libdwarf-0.3.0.tar.xz 1962920

Date: 2021-10-30. Release 0.3.0 passes coverity scan with no errors/warnings. All known problems with functional interfaces have been fixed, no further changes are planned. All useless public structures in libdwarf.h have been removed, and no further changes to public structs will be made. In other words, aside from adding new interfaces where such are missing, this libdwarf.h and libdwarf are now stable. The doc/libdwarf.pdf documentation now documents all available library functions and only those functions.

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libdwarf-0.2.0.tar.xz 1961916

Date: 2021-09-20. Release 0.2.0 passes coverity scan with no errors/warnings. The release changes some libdwarf initialization functions to a form suitable for DWARF2-DWARF5 (by removing pointless arguments). All obsolete function interfaces have been removed (they all have modern replacements with similar spelling). Aside from a single function, dwarf_expand_frame_instructions() (which only works for DWARF2 and will be replaced), all functions are usable for all DWARF2-DWARF5. See libdwarfreadme.html for details

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libdwarf-0.1.1.tar.xz 1929280

Date: 2021-08-07. Now with pkg-config files generated. All the obsolete functions have been removed. The DWARF5 .debug_names section is not yet fully supported. Tested against the full regressiontests. DO NOT use the function dwarf_skip_leb128, which appears in this release libdwarf.h for the first time and is dropped from 0.1.2. It is not documented. Making it public was not a good idea.

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libdwarf-0.1.0.tar.xz 2078520

Date: 2021-05-31 This is a first release with a new source and build directory structure, and the first tarball with a semantic-version identity and no other changes from 20210528. Soon there will be major revisions. Here the main documentation is renamed libdwarf.pdf, libdwarf no longer uses libelf, and dwarfdump no longer reads archive (<name>.a) files. The Elf object-file printing features have been removed from dwarfdump (the -E and -o options). Interested parties might like to give this a try. Fully tested against the full regressiontests.

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libdwarf-20210528.tar.gz 2869691

This release corrects libdwarf's handling of DWARF5 line table header DW_LNCT entries. Dwarfdump now prints DW_OP_bra and DW_OP_skip correctly and correctly validates the target of these operators.

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libdwarf-20210305.tar.gz 2872089

This release adds summary information on attribute/form-class uses and attribute/forms use to the existing option -ku summary on tags and attributes. Dwarfdump verifies many attribute references are usable and prints a little from the target DIE, including with DW_FORM_ref_sig8 references. Now dwarf.h shows many more extensions (added by compiler developers) to the TAGs and ATtributes defines. Alongside releases is a pdf, libdwarf2.1xl.pdf (xl.pdf as it is extra-large), that is the same as the latest libdwarf2.1.pdf but with the table-of-contents at the front, not the back, of the pdf. Created an experiment, it is around 15MB so seemed too large to place it in the release or to do multiple versions. Later updates will just replace it on prevanders.net.

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libdwarf-20201201.tar.gz 2838730

Added checks for corrupted DWARF. Improved printing with --print-debug-gnu. Printing of DWARF Expression operators is much easier to read now. The regression tests can now be run in a temporary directory, keeping the test source directory clean.

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libdwarf-20201020.tar.gz 2810313

Corrected the printing of DWARF5 line tables, rnglists, and loclists. Now follows GNU debuglink rules to find the object file with debug in it (when that applies). A new dwarf_init_path_dl() function gives callers needing every feature of GNU debuglink flexibility the required new arguments. Added checks to catch corrupted Elf and PE objects as soon as possible. See the introduction in dwarfdump.1 for a short overview of GNU debuglink, DWARF5 split-dwarf, and MacOS dSYM.

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libdwarf-20200825.tar.gz 2761374

Fixed errors in handling split-dwarf so we get more complete information when dwarfdump/libdwarf see both the dwp and the executable. Added some well-known GNU TAG/ATTRIBUTE to the extensions list so dwarfdump will not complain with -ka.

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libdwarf-20200719.tar.gz 2754563

Added some tag-tag and tag-attribute relationships for DWARF5 and some common extensions to their relationship lists so the -k options do not report these as issues to check. Now libdwarf reads and dwarfdump can print the DWARF5 .debug_sup section. And similarly for .debug_gnu_pubnames, .debug_gnu_pubtypes. A bug in dwarfdump that could lead to a small one-time memory leakage is now fixed fixed.

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libdwarf-20200703.tar.gz 2725934

Adds support for DWARF5 rnglists and loclists. See the documentation for dwarf_set_de_alloc_flag(0) in libdwarf2.1.pdf, this offers improved libdwarf performance (but requires diligence).

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libdwarf-20200114.tar.gz 2574626

The documentation of dwarf_init_path() has been clarified. A couple of memory leaks in handling rare errors have been fixed. The dwarfexample directory has a new example relating to the gnu debuglink features in gcc that allow one to find where any separate object files containing DWARF are located.

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The code and regression tests now work properly in more environments. Including Ubuntu Linux little-endian, big-endian Linux machines (s390), MacOS Catalina, and FreeBSD, and MinGW. 32bit and 64bit systems. No libraries other than libc are needed to build libdwarf or dwarfdump (certain object files use libz compression for DWARF sections and reading those does require one have libz linked in).

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libdwarf-20191002.tar.gz 2511625

Numerous small improvements have been made. Clarifying code, ensuring 'make check' really shows dwarfdump and libdwarf work, and ensuring that 'make check' works under mingw (win32) are the main points.

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libdwarf-20190529.tar.gz 2404715

The build now works for more environments. The cmake support is now simpler and more complete. We now test in big-endian as well as little-endian systems (dwarfgen does not work properly in a big-endian system yet).

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It is now straightforward to build a libdwarf and dwarfdump that do not rely on libelf yet will read and process Elf object files. The build with configure is simplified as much unneeded code has been removed. For example all uses and configuration of __UINT32_t and other related integer types have been removed. The cmake build is simplified with configure-isms removed and now works better with MinGW, MSVC, and systems with struct _Elf (example: FreeBSD). Code calling the libelf-only interfaces dwarf_elf_init() and dwarf_elf_init_b() will, when the called libdwarf was built without libelf, get an immediate error return.

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libdwarf-20190110.tar.gz 2257691

The problem with libdwarf-20190104 is fixed.

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libdwarf-20190104.tar.gz 2257377

Do not use! dwarfdump and libdwarf now read and dump DWARF information from Elf, Mach-o and PE object files. January 9: a serious new bug was discovered today. If an object file fails a particular check in libdwarf then libdwarf will crash the caller. Reading valid object files will not crash the caller. Git commit fa5a44c378b0e5a5ba67d8871ac3b325f71f15a9 and later (pushed to Sourceforge) have this fixed.

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Do not use this. It's deleted. See 20190104 (above) instead. A new function (dwarf_init_path()) did not have adequate regression testing and Coverity static analysis identified six or so problems in that code.

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libdwarf-20181024.tar.gz 2192118

Dwarfdump now has meaningful long-option-names available for all its options. dwarfdump --help-extended shows the list of all options. Thanks to Carlos Alberto Enciso for conceiving and creating the long options. Now libdwarf/dwarfdump can read/print DWARF from mach-o dSYM objects as well as Elf object. Thanks to Eeri Kask for providing help, the impetus to make it happen, and test objects. A libdwarf init call (dwarf_init_path()) is now available. dwarf_object_detector_path() (and dwarf_object_detector_fd()) inform callers information on what an object file actually is (elf, mach-o, or PE). (post release discovery: "dwarfdump -h" does not work usefully. Oops. Use the long-option --help-extended instead.)

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libdwarf-20180809.tar.gz 2061108

The new configure seem to be working properly now. For example, 'make check', 'make install' and 'make dist' do the right things whether run in-source-tree or from a build directory. In addition, dwarfdump prints information on section compression (for sections that are compressed) and always prints the actual section name from the object file.

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libdwarf-20180724.tar.gz 2029211

News 2018-07-31. While usable there are issues here: make install does not install the dwarfdump.1 man page . make install installs more into /usr/local/share/libdwarf than was really intended. libdwarf.so shows as version 1.5.0 which was not intended. Replacement coming soon. But if the issues don't matter to you it's fine to use. Replaces 20180723. This release has the new configure. The configure options are mostly identical to previous releases. See the README in the top-level. Profound thanks to Vincent Torri for writing the new configure (any mistakes here are undoubtedly mine, though). Thanks to Hannes Domani for applying Coverity to libdwarf which identified over twenty previously-unknown bugs quite precisely (all fixed now). Thanks to Tom Hughes who noticed an omission in the alpha-non-release July 6. It is quite possible that something important to you is broken. Get in touch as soon as possible if you think something is wrong.

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libdwarf-20180723.tar.gz withdrawn

Withdrawn. The tar.gz file is missing libdwarf.h.in so attempts to build on FreeBSD (and possibly other platforms) will not succeed.

alpha-libdwarf-20180706.tar.gz 1976106

NOT A NORMAL RELEASE: this is a test release that will be added to Sourceforge on or after July 17, 2018. It uses a completely rewritten configure setup that uses automake and libtool yet one uses configure almost identically to releases of the past; the point is easier source maintenance and additional automation. It passes the usual tests on both Ubuntu 16.04 and FreeBSD 11.1 with 32bit and 64bit pointer environments. See the top-level README. This source is not on Sourceforge, it is only available in this .tar.gz Try it out. Let us know of any difficulties. Make install fails to install dwarf.h and libdwarf.h . The tar.gz here does not have the one-line fix. Email to: libdwarf =at= linuxmail =dot= org

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libdwarf-20180527.tar.gz 1861570

libdwarf: Improved error checking and made cross compiling possible. Possibly all DWARF5 is supported. dwarfdump: Brought configure closer to current standards, enabled cross compiling. Now supports --longoptionnames. Refactored option/flag handling for easier maintenance. Now can print the .debug_str_offsets section with option --print-str-offsets. Thanks to David Blaikie,Carlos Alberto Enciso, Helmut Grohne,Eeri Kask,Pedro Navarro, Vincent Torri,Fabian Wolff, and Keith Walker for their test cases,assistance, and advice.

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libdwarf-20180129.tar.gz 1823832

Fixes libdwarf/dwarfdump vulnerabilities related to detecting corrupt DWARF and includes other small improvements. Thanks to Agostino Sarubbo, David Binderman, Eeri Kask, James Lowden, and Dvir Yitzchaki for their help.

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Fixes a libdwarf vulnerability. Thanks to Team OWL337 for finding the vulnerability and to Fabian Wolff for emailing an alert. Has updates to documentation on DWARF5 consumer interfaces.

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libdwarf-20170416.tar.gz 1777385

Begins to support the DWARF5 .debug_names section and other DWARF5 changes. (not tested, no test cases yet available). Now supports DWARF5 split dwarf sensibly. The few new function interfaces can be ignored by those not needing split dwarf support. The tools can now be built with cmake (the default build is still with configure), thank you Dvir Yitzchaki. Carlos Alberto-Enciso, Emre Kultursay, Marcel Bohme, Van-Thuan Pham, and Alexandr Terekhov all noted bugs or vulnerabilities and these are all fixed.

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libdwarf-20161124.tar.gz 1732155

Fixes some newly discovered vulnerabilities (most due to corrupted DWARF). Thanks to Puzzor (Shi Ji) and Agostino Sarubbo for finding and reporting these and for providing short test cases.

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Fixes one place where erroneous dwarf not caught, Updates version strings, adds a bit more DWARF5 support, and converts the few Python scripts from python2 to python3.

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libdwarf-20161001.tar.gz 1725257

Fixes serious bugs in release 20160929 and all earlier releases relating to encoding/decoding leb numbers. It is unlikely anyone will see any difference in output, but values showing a difference can be constructed. libdwarf/dwarf_leb.c has new test code and a few of the tests there demonstrated problems. gcc -fsanitize=undefined found problems as well.

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libdwarf-20160929.tar.gz Withdrawn. See 20161001.

Fixes three serious bugs in release 20160923. Two of them old bugs, one new in 20160923. The bugs were exposed by occasional inconsistent behavior in one or two regression tests.

libdwarf-20160923.tar.gz 1721186

DO NOT USE: use libdwarf-20161001 instead. Think of this as withdrawn. Many improvements in the code catching corrupt dwarf. Quite a number of places with out-of-bound read/write of memory fixed. Trivial but annoying memory leaks in dwarfdump fixed. Thanks to Puzzor, STARLAB, Salvatore Bonaccorso, Agostino Sarubbo, Vul, James Grumbach, and others for reporting memory corruption and other issues.

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libdwarf-20160613.tar.gz 1622221

Incorporates code detecting malformed DWARF and malformed Elf object files. Dwarfdump and libdwarf performance reading frame data improved significantly, though the improvements don't apply to all frame data interface functions. The configure/make system now builds libdwarf shared objects (when asked to) with a proper soname. Thanks to Sture Carlson, Hannes Domani, etienneberg, Steve Kaufman, Yue Liu, and Fabian Wolff for their help/comments on libdwarf. Major thanks to Carlos Alberto Enciso for his collaboration.

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Incorporates many additional checks so that corrupt dwarf will not crash an executable calling libdwarf. Thanks to Yue Liu for providing a number of small and corrupted objects.

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libdwarf-20160115.tar.gz 1538930

Now reads and prints DWARF5/4 macro data (The new .debug_macro section). Added some checks of abbreviation codes. Thanks to Emre Kultursay, Tom Kittel, Gernot Klingler, and Kubo Takehiro for suggestions and test cases. See the top-level README for hints on building the package outside of the source tree and building and using the shared-library version of libdwarf.

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Support for reading Split Dwarf object files provided. New location and location-list interfaces added for Split Dwarf and DWARF5. Uses new functions to pass location list data to callers, not publicly defined structures, as functions make any future changes to location information easier to support. Existing DWARF 2,3,4 location information interfaces retained for compatibility so existing calling code is not affected..

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libdwarf-20150915.tar.gz 1382772

Corrected accidental C99-isms, added missing return statements, and improved checking. Thanks to Carlos Alberto Enciso for these enhancements. I suggest using the git source base, it has some small fixes beyond this release related to new code for the .debug_addr and the .debug_str_offsets sections (DWARF5) and for reading gcc experimental two-level line tables.. Thanks to Emre Kultursay for encouraging me to add some needed DWARF5 features and for reporting bugs so the git source base gets corrected quickly.

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libdwarf-20150913.tar.gz withdrawn

Strings are checked thoroughly to ensure they do not run off the end of their section without a termination and cause chaos in libdwarf. Now with DWARF5 (and DWARF4) Debug Fission support, so one can nearly transparently (see dwarf_set_tied_dbg()) extract addresses denoted DW_FORM_addrx in a package file from the executable with the .debug_addr section. Withdrawn as 20150915 has this and more.

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libdwarf-20150507.tar.gz 1365912

Now with DWARF5 (and DWARF4) Package File reader support. Package Files are a way to keep DWARF debug information in a separate object file. DWARF5 is not a released standard, so the new features must be considered tentative.

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Improved range checking. Fixed bugs in dwgetopt(). Added omitted tags and attributes lists in dwarfdump to make error checking more accurate. Where pc checks make no sense in a line table (meaning on DW_TAG_type_unit and children) such dwarfdump checks are now omitted.

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The omission of an include of stdarg.h in the 20150112 release meant that standard-conforming compilers could get an error compiling dwarfdump due to va_list not being defined, though Ubuntu and FreeBSD compiles did not see such an error. Now dwarfdump does the include. The dwarfdump2 source has been removed as of this tar.gz file. Dwarfdump2 is no longer needed.

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New checking options added to dwarfdump. Dwarfdump2 no longer updated or compiled. Improvements in internal checking to handle badly formed Elf and Dwarf files. Better recovery from malloc failure.

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Source incompatibility for users of producer code: dwarf_producer_init() now has a new interface and a sensible way to select the output ABI/ISA for relocation numbers. Part of preparation to emit DWARF3,4,5. The reader code now handles DebugFission, called Split Dwarf objects in the draft DWARF5 standard.

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Libdwarf now follows the DWARF2 standard properly in reading DW_FORM_ref_addr. The original DWARF2 standard is on dwarfstd.org so it's gone from the libdwarf source.

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Fixed a bug in dwarfdump[2] Makefile.in so parallel make works reliably. Removed remaining trailing-whitespace. Moved tsearch testcases over to the libdwarf regressiontests repository as the tests seemed too large to keep in the source.

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Radically simplifies libdwarf allocation code. Adds GNU-specific DW_FORM codes so recent gcc objects can be read usefully. Adds tsearch implementations (see the tsearch directory). Removes trailing whitespace (it appeared all over). Adds new functions to libdwarf for new DWARF reference types. The tsearch test cases have bloated this source release, but in future those test cases won't be in the tar file (instead they are in the libdwarf regressiontests repository on Sourceforge).

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Added AARCH64 relocation support. Fixed some simple compiler warnings.

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Now with a simplified build (see README) and with checks for most compiler errors in producing DW_AT_sibling attributes. Verified on Ubuntu 12.10 and FreeBSD 9.1.

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A mistake in handling DW_OP_GNU_const_type could lead to a libdwarf coredump at times, and even when it appeared to work the value printed was wrong. Thanks to Tom Hughes and Andrew Bernat for pointing out the DW_OP_GNU_const_type problem. This release has libdwarf interfaces compatible with releases before 20130125. Compared to 20130125 this restores the libdwarf.h interface Dwarf_Loc structure and changes the way the lr_number2 member is used for the new location expression operator DW_OP_GNU_const_type.

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Comments on Testing

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Every release of libdwarf/dwarfdump is tested with many options and option-combinations. There is no real reason libdwarf/dwarfdump users should need to redo this testing work. However, if you do wish to try running the regression tests, you will find them in git in Sourceforge via anonymous access "git clone https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-regressiontests" See the file README.txt in the base directory of the tests for an overview of the test process. We do not provide a tar file of the regression tests. The regression tests are updated with every libdwarf release.

Additional tests (simple object files or shared-objects or executables) are accepted here should you wish to submit such, but the goal is to add tests that represent previously-untested aspects of DWARF/libdwarf, not to duplicate existing tests. Smallish object files are preferred. No source need be provided. The submitter has to be sure, and state, that releasing the objects here is appropriate.

Nothing in libdwarf looks at very many sections of an Elf file: the other section contents can be zeroed out without affecting the object use for testing libdwarf (see the directory named 'zero' in the testing distribution for a convenient byte-zeroing helper application in C++ source). Sections like .text and .data (and closely related sections) are of no value for testing libdwarf. It may be that otherwise-proprietary objects can be released for use in this test suite once the instruction and data sections are zeroed out.

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