Why ?

As an attempt to provide similar functionality as Vector CanApe does. But only ONE instance of CanApe can be running at the computer and trying to load different ELF file to inspect variables is a pain and can easily result in broken project, workflow or headache.

Usage

usage: main.py [-h] [--include-file-name] [--version] [file]

Expands symbols (global variables) types.

positional arguments:
  file                 ELF file to try to extract symbols

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --include-file-name  Display filename at the beginning
  --version            show program's version number and exit

Data displayed by this script are informative only!

Output

> python main.py ../Playground_C/build/playground_c
0x4030  my_stuff
0x4030  my_stuff.first
0x4030  my_stuff.first.number_1
0x4038  my_stuff.first.number_2
0x403c  my_stuff.first.number_3
0x403e  my_stuff.first.number_4
0x403f  my_stuff.first.number_5
0x4040  my_stuff.second
0x4038  my_little_stuff
0x4038  my_little_stuff.one
0x4038  my_little_stuff.two
0x4040  my_small_stuff
0x4040  my_small_stuff.one
0x4040  my_small_stuff.one[0]
...
0x4057  my_small_stuff.one[23]
0x4040  my_small_stuff.structure
0x4040  my_small_stuff.structure.first
0x4040  my_small_stuff.structure.first.number_1
0x4048  my_small_stuff.structure.first.number_2
0x404c  my_small_stuff.structure.first.number_3
0x404e  my_small_stuff.structure.first.number_4
0x404f  my_small_stuff.structure.first.number_5
0x4050  my_small_stuff.structure.second
0x4060  thing
0x4060  thing.first
0x4060  thing.first.number_1
0x4068  thing.first.number_2
0x406c  thing.first.number_3
0x406e  thing.first.number_4
0x406f  thing.first.number_5
0x4070  thing.second

Licensing

This script is based on dwex DWarf EXplorer by "Seva Alekseyev". The original source code of dwex can be found on GitHub1

Since it is derived work and licensing can be a mess, the resulting license follows the original and thus the code is licensed under BSD license.