Re: Debug info - command

[Vincent Rubiolo <vincent dot rubiolo at st dot com>]

Hello,

You might also want to give the `file` command a try.
It will tell you the file type and, especially is it is a binary, whether it is 
stripped or not

Hopes that helps,

Vincent

erik@dd.nec.com.au wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:44:53PM +0530, Sathish_Dilip@chennai.tcs.co.in wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >     Is there any command to find out whether my executables( say a.out)
> > have the debug info in them or not.  
>
>
>    Yep. Try objdump. The -D option provides the shotgun approach.
>    If you've done a gcc -g, then you'll see interspersed 'C' source
>    lines.
>
>    It is remiss of the gcc manpage not to mention this command under
>    "SEE ALSO", IMHO. (But objdump is part of binutils, so it's perhaps
>    too OT to warrant a mention. ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Erik