| @c This file contains the entry for the --ctf, --ctf-parent, --ctf-symbols, -and |
| @c --ctf-strings options that are common to both readelf and objdump. |
| |
| @item --ctf[=@var{section}] |
| @cindex CTF |
| @cindex Compact Type Format |
| |
| Display the contents of the specified CTF section. CTF sections themselves |
| contain many subsections, all of which are displayed in order. |
| |
| By default, display the name of the section named @var{.ctf}, which is the |
| name emitted by @command{ld}. |
| |
| @item --ctf-parent=@var{member} |
| |
| If the CTF section contains ambiguously-defined types, it will consist |
| of an archive of many CTF dictionaries, all inheriting from one |
| dictionary containing unambiguous types. This member is by default |
| named @var{.ctf}, like the section containing it, but it is possible to |
| change this name using the @code{ctf_link_set_memb_name_changer} |
| function at link time. When looking at CTF archives that have been |
| created by a linker that uses the name changer to rename the parent |
| archive member, @option{--ctf-parent} can be used to specify the name |
| used for the parent. |
| |
| @item --ctf-parent-section=@var{section} |
| |
| This option lets you pick a completely different section for the CTF |
| parent dictionary containing unambiguous types than for the child |
| dictionaries that contain the ambiguous remainder. The linker does |
| not emit ELF objects structured like this, but some third-party linkers |
| may. It's also convenient to inspect CTF written out as multiple raw |
| files to compose them with objcopy, which can put them in different |
| ELF sections but not in different members of a single CTF dict. |
