Bod

objdump beautifier

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Aim

bod (Beautify ObjDump) is a python script that

colorizes objdump’s output to make it more readable
allows to disassemble a single function (see Main options)
allows to have a glance at the binary (see Main options)

Supported Targets

elf32-littlearm
elf32-tradlittlemips
elf32-tradbigmips
elf32-i386
elf64-x86-64

Tested versions of objdump

GNU objdump (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.26.1
GNU objdump (GNU Binutils for Raspbian) 2.25

Notes

bod will work properly only on a system using an English locale
bod is not compatible with the -r and -R options of objdump

License

bod is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0

Installation

Download

Download bod here or for the latest version on GitHub

Installation instructions

If you downloaded bod here

sudo cp bod /usr/local/bin/bod
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bod

otherwise follow the instruction on GitHub

Usage

Basic

Pipe objdump’s output to bod, for example with:

objdump -d ./binary | bod

If needed, this output can itself be piped to less thanks to

objdump -d ./binary | bod | less -R

Main options

bod allows:

to have a glance at what is in the binary with -l or --list
to look at the disassembly of a single function with -f or --function