Current state

The project is actively being refactored into v2. When elfmane was first written it was the best example of the worst coding practices in C. Now that I've matured in my C programming skills, I'm modulating the project, fixing the poor architecture, fixing bugs and introducing new features.

Purpose

An ELF interpreting CLI tool written in C without any external dependencies.

elfmane reads raw bytes from an ELF file to parse data like ELF Header, Program Segment Headers and Section Headers. elfmane's focus on readability and polishedness makes the tool distinct from a well known alternative readelf. While readelf is more of a general purpose tool with all needed information packed in it, elfmane specifies in having only the essentials for the simple usecases for smoother experience.

This is a project built with the goal of gaining experience in low-level programming in C and being able to maintain a somewhat . Despite this, elfmane is not limited to being a simple learning project and in reality has a problem that it's solving and is intended for use. Therefore elfmane is not just "testing until it works okay" but a piece of software I would use myself and be content.