Recommend users use readelf instead of objdump to dump .comment contents.
readelf's output is much easier to read than objdump's as you can see below. $ readelf --string-dump .comment foo String dump of section '.comment': [ 1] GCC: (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4 [ 2c] clang version 5.0.0 [ 41] Linker: LLD 5.0.0 $ objdump -j .comment -s foo Contents of section .comment: 0000 00474343 3a202855 62756e74 7520342e .GCC: (Ubuntu 4. 0010 382e342d 32756275 6e747531 7e31342e 8.4-2ubuntu1~14. 0020 30342e33 2920342e 382e3400 636c616e 04.3) 4.8.4.clan 0030 67207665 7273696f 6e20352e 302e3020 g version 5.0.0 0040 004c696e 6b65723a 204c4c44 20352e30 .Linker: LLD 5.0 0050 2e3000 .0. llvm-svn: 301515
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// Creates a .comment section containing LLD version info.
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// With this feature, you can identify LLD-generated binaries easily
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// by "objdump -s -j .comment <file>".
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// by "readelf --string-dump .comment <file>".
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// The returned object is a mergeable string section.
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template <class ELFT> MergeInputSection *elf::createCommentSection() {
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typename ELFT::Shdr Hdr = {};
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LLD leaves its name and version number to a ``.comment`` section in an
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output. If you are in doubt whether you are successfully using LLD or
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not, run ``objdump -s -j .comment <output-file>`` and examine the
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not, run ``readelf --string-dump .comment <output-file>`` and examine the
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output. If the string "Linker: LLD" is included in the output, you are
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using LLD.
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