readelf is a program for displaying various information about object files on Unix-like systems, similar to objdump.
Both programs are capable of displaying the contents of ELF format files.
If BFD has a bug where it disagrees about a machine constant in e_flags, then the odds are good that it will remain internally consistent.
In particular it can display DWARF debugging information which (at the moment) objdump cannot.
The following command displays the contents of the file's dynamic section (to examine the shared library dependencies and rpath):[2] This Unix-related article is a stub.