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dwarf-extract-struct
====================

Simple utility to extract struct as header file from binary
debug informations


Usage
=====

There's a trivial Makefile for now, just run `make` and run the program.

Once built, `dwarf-extract-struct` takes for arguments:
 - path to the binary you want to extract debug informations from
(must be built with -g and not stripped, alternatively it can be a
'.debug' file)
 - the name of the struct you want to mimic
 - the name of the fields you want to extract

For example, on itself:
```
$ ./dwarf-extract-struct dwarf-extract-struct _IO_FILE _markers _IO_buf_base
struct _IO_FILE {
	union {
		char whole_struct[216];
		struct {
			char padding0[56];
			char *_IO_buf_base;
		};
		struct {
			char padding1[96];
			struct _IO_marker *_markers;
		};
	};
};
```


This is work in progress, interface will likely change.