It is possible to read an object file?

Question

I was curious about .obj files: I pretty much don\'t know what they are (or what they contain), so I opened them with Vim text editor and what I found inside was an

Answer 1

Sure.

But every different platform has a different object format. On Windows, you could use a tool like dumpbin (dumpbin comes with Visual Studio). On Linux, you could use "dumpobj", or disassemble the program.

Here's a good link for Linux:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1060

PS: objdump also lets you disassemble the object. Like you used to be able to do with "debug" on DOS PCs...