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pahole: pahole (shows and manipulates program's data structure layout)
pahole:
pahole: pahole shows data structure layouts encoded in debugging information
pahole: formats, DWARF and CTF being supported.
pahole:
pahole: This is useful for, among other things: optimizing important data
pahole: structures by reducing their size, figuring out what is the field
pahole: sitting at an offset from the start of a data structure, investigating
pahole: ABI changes and more generally understanding a new codebase you have
pahole: to work with.
pahole: