Elf symbols 0.3.0

A new release of elf-symbols script. The new version brings the stuff mentioned in the previous article and few more fixes and changes.

CHANGELOG

• Reworked the bit offset from the left
  • I had a huge misunderstanding on how this works, so when I was converting it to the offset from right I did not account for the actual bit size which created a huge headache when trying to print the correct bit masks.
• Parse and print static function variables
  • Also print variables defined in lexical blocks (between “{}”)
  • The linkage_name of these variable is often manged, so print it.
• Add option to print the mangled name of the variable
  • This is useful in combination with parting static variables inside functions where apart from a nice name there is also linage_name available which specifies where the variable belongs in the code.
  • So far, I do not plan to write any demangler in the near future.
• Update licensing information
  • The original dwex code is under BSD
  • My code is from now on under GPLv3
• Play a little with README
  • I tried to rewrite it to look more like a real project.

All of the changes can be seen in the git logs.

Thoughts

The script is improving, gaining new features with each usage as I find new bugs or edge case with embedded toolchains.

Short imaginary TODO list is:

• Fix bugs which will popup.
• Refactor the code.
• Add some control for the output
• Print more stuff (I forgot about the reference type, again)