Hmm, my mistake. You're completely correct. From the readelf man page: This program performs a similar function to objdump but it goes into more d

Hmm, my mistake. You're completely correct. From the readelf man page: This program performs a similar function to objdump but it goes into more detail and it exists independently of the BFD library, so if there is a bug in BFD then readelf will not be affected.