the first line is the VDSO. this is described in depth in the vdso(7) manpage. basically it’s a shared library that’s embedded in your kernel and automatically loaded whenever a new process is exec-ed. that’s why there’s no filesystem path on the right side — there is none! the file only exists in the kernel … Read more
Use the -O binary output format: objcopy -O binary –only-section=.text foobar.elf foobar.text Just verified with avr-objcopy and an AVR ELF image’s .text section. Note that if, as Tim points out below, your section doesn’t have the ALLOC flag, you may have to add –set-section-flags .text=alloc to be able to extract it.
Hit Control + L. Works for me in Linux and Mac OS X as well with recent versions of GDB.
is there any way to get a list of the dynamically linked dependency for of a foreign binary You can list direct dependencies of a binary easily enough: readelf -d a.out | grep NEEDED 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [librt.so.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] I know of no way to recursively continue this to get … Read more