document
├── build_info = '' <str> [Information about the build]
├── configuration [Boolean flags that configure what is supposed to be displayed and how]
│ ├── debug_info_available = 'None' <NoneType> [True if Dwarf debugging information was found in both binaries]
│ ├── display_appeared_symbols_overview = 'True' <bool> [True if an overview about appeared symbols is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_binary_details = 'False' <bool> [True if details about binaries are supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_build_info = 'False' <bool> [True if build information is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_details = 'True' <bool> [True if symbol detail information is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_disappeared_symbols_overview = 'True' <bool> [True if an overview about disappeared symbols is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_migrated_symbols = 'True' <bool> [True if migrated symbols are supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_migrated_symbols_overview = 'True' <bool> [True if an overview about migrated symbols is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_new_binary_info = 'False' <bool> [True if new binary info is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_old_binary_info = 'False' <bool> [True if old binary info is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_persisting_symbols_overview = 'True' <bool> [True if an overview about persisting symbols is supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_similar_symbols = 'True' <bool> [True if similar symbols are supposed to be displayed]
│ ├── display_similar_symbols_overview = 'True' <bool> [True if an overview about similar symbols is supposed to be displayed]
│ └── instructions_available = 'True' <bool> [True if instructions could be read from both binary files]
├── files [Information about relevant files]
│ └── input [Information about relevant input files]
│ ├── new [Information about relevant input files]
│ │ ├── binary_path = '../../tests/x86_64/libelf_diff_test_debug_new.a' <str> [The path to the binary file]
│ │ ├── debug_info_available = 'True' <bool> [True if Dwarf debug info avaiable in the elf binary]
│ │ └── source_files [Source file by file id (dict values of type SourceFile)]
│ └── old [Information about relevant input files]
│ ├── binary_path = '../../tests/x86_64/libelf_diff_test_debug_old.a' <str> [The path to the binary file]
│ ├── debug_info_available = 'True' <bool> [True if Dwarf debug info avaiable in the elf binary]
│ └── source_files [Source file by file id (dict values of type SourceFile)]
├── general [General information about the document]
│ ├── doc_title = 'ELF Binary Comparison' <str> [Document title]
│ ├── document_version = '1' <int> [The document version of this document]
│ ├── elf_diff_repo_root = '/home/runner/work/elf_diff/elf_diff/src/elf_diff' <str> [Path to the root of the elf_diff git repo]
│ ├── elf_diff_version = '3d17d62ace08ebf700cef3c9322aff184cc08269' <str> [The elf_diff version that generated the page]
│ ├── generation_date = '2026-09-25 06:48:53' <str> [The document generation date]
│ └── page_title = 'ELF Binary Comparison - (c) 2021 by noseglasses' <str> [The title of the document page]
├── new_binary_info = '' <str> [Info about the new binary]
├── old_binary_info = '' <str> [Info about the old binary]
├── statistics
│ ├── overall [Overall statistics]
│ │ ├── delta
│ │ │ └── resource_consumption [Information about resource consumption]
│ │ │ ├── bss = '0' <int> [bss section memory consumption]
│ │ │ ├── code = '2' <int> [Memory required to store code]
│ │ │ ├── data = '0' <int> [data section memory consumption]
│ │ │ ├── static_ram = '0' <int> [Static RAM consumption]
│ │ │ └── text = '2' <int> [text section memory consumption]
│ │ ├── new
│ │ │ └── resource_consumption [Information about resource consumption]
│ │ │ ├── bss = '0' <int> [bss section memory consumption]
│ │ │ ├── code = '331' <int> [Memory required to store code]
│ │ │ ├── data = '8' <int> [data section memory consumption]
│ │ │ ├── static_ram = '8' <int> [Static RAM consumption]
│ │ │ └── text = '323' <int> [text section memory consumption]
│ │ └── old
│ │ └── resource_consumption [Information about resource consumption]
│ │ ├── bss = '0' <int> [bss section memory consumption]
│ │ ├── code = '329' <int> [Memory required to store code]
│ │ ├── data = '8' <int> [data section memory consumption]
│ │ ├── static_ram = '8' <int> [Static RAM consumption]
│ │ └── text = '321' <int> [text section memory consumption]
│ └── symbols [Statistics of symbols]
│ ├── appeared
│ │ └── count = '4' <int> [Number of symbols]
│ ├── disappeared
│ │ └── count = '4' <int> [Number of symbols]
│ ├── new [Overall statistics about symbols considered]
│ │ ├── count [Number of symbols]
│ │ │ ├── dropped = '0' <int> [Number of symbols dropped]
│ │ │ ├── selected = '7' <int> [Number of symbols selected]
│ │ │ └── total = '7' <int> [Number of total symbols in binary]
│ │ └── regex [Overall statistics about symbols considered]
│ │ ├── exclusion = '' <str> [Regular expression used to exclude symbols found in binary]
│ │ └── selection = '.*' <str> [Regular expression used to select symbols found in binary]
│ ├── old [Overall statistics about symbols considered]
│ │ ├── count [Number of symbols]
│ │ │ ├── dropped = '0' <int> [Number of symbols dropped]
│ │ │ ├── selected = '7' <int> [Number of symbols selected]
│ │ │ └── total = '7' <int> [Number of total symbols in binary]
│ │ └── regex [Overall statistics about symbols considered]
│ │ ├── exclusion = '' <str> [Regular expression used to exclude symbols found in binary]
│ │ └── selection = '.*' <str> [Regular expression used to select symbols found in binary]
│ ├── persisting
│ │ ├── assembly_differs_count = '2' <int> [Number of persisting symbols with assembly differences]
│ │ ├── count = '3' <int> [Number of symbols]
│ │ └── resource_consumption [Total resource consumption of considered symbols of given class]
│ │ ├── delta = '0' <int> [Change to number of bytes consumed (only for persisting and similar)]
│ │ ├── new = '40' <int> [Overall number of bytes consumed in the old version]
│ │ └── old = '40' <int> [Overall number of bytes consumed in the old version]
│ └── similar
│ └── count = '10' <int> [Number of symbols]
└── symbols [Symbols by id/table id ]
├── appeared [Dict of appeared symbols by symbol id (dict values of type AppearedSymbol)]
├── disappeared [Disappeared symbols by symbol id (dict values of type DisappearedSymbol)]
├── migrated [Migrated symbols by symbol id (dict values of type MigratedSymbol)]
├── new [Dict of selected symbols of the new binary by symbol id (dict values of type Symbol)]
├── old [Dict of selected symbols of the old binary by symbol id (dict values of type Symbol)]
├── persisting [Persisting symbols by symbol id (dict values of type PersistingSymbol)]
└── similar [Similar symbols by symbol id (dict values of type SimilarSymbols)]
Please note: The actual node representations are not listed due to space constraints.
source_file ├── id <int> [The id of the source file] ├── path <str> [The full path of the source file as reported by binutils/nm] └── path_wo_prefix <str> [The name of the source file with user defined prefix stripped]
symbol ├── id <int> [Unique symbol identifier] ├── instructions <str> [Code instructions (assembly with possibly high level language code intermixed)] ├── is_demangled <bool> [True if the symbol name is demangled] ├── is_stored_in_program_memory <bool> [True if the symbol is stored in program memory] ├── name <str> [The symbol name (demangled if supported)] ├── name_mangled <str> [The mangled symbol name] ├── size <int> [Number of bytes occupied by the symbol] ├── source │ ├── file_id <int> [The id of the source file] │ └── line <int> [The line number in the source file where the symbol is defined] └── type <str> [Type character matching the characters used by the nm binutils tool]
persisting_symbol
├── display_info [Information that configures how things are displayed]
│ ├── anchor_id <str> [Unique string identifier token that can be used to generate a HTML anchor for cross references]
│ ├── display_symbol_details <bool> [True if symbol details are supposed to be displayed]
│ └── symbol_class <str> [The class of symbol old/new/appeared/disappeared/persisting/similar]
└── related_symbols [A relation between two symbols]
├── new <Symbol> [The new symbol]
├── old <Symbol> [The old symbol]
└── size_delta <int> [Difference in bytes between the resource occupation of the two symbols]
appeared_symbol
├── actual <Symbol> [The actual symbol]
└── display_info [Information that configures how things are displayed]
├── anchor_id <str> [Unique string identifier token that can be used to generate a HTML anchor for cross references]
├── display_symbol_details <bool> [True if symbol details are supposed to be displayed]
└── symbol_class <str> [The class of symbol old/new/appeared/disappeared/persisting/similar]
disappeared_symbol
├── actual <Symbol> [The actual symbol]
└── display_info [Information that configures how things are displayed]
├── anchor_id <str> [Unique string identifier token that can be used to generate a HTML anchor for cross references]
├── display_symbol_details <bool> [True if symbol details are supposed to be displayed]
└── symbol_class <str> [The class of symbol old/new/appeared/disappeared/persisting/similar]
similar_symbols
├── display_info [Information that configures how things are displayed]
│ ├── anchor_id <str> [Unique string identifier token that can be used to generate a HTML anchor for cross references]
│ ├── display_symbol_details <bool> [True if symbol details are supposed to be displayed]
│ └── symbol_class <str> [The class of symbol old/new/appeared/disappeared/persisting/similar]
├── id <int> [The id of the symbol pair]
├── new
│ └── signature_tagged <str> [A tagged version of the symbol signature. Taggs '...HIGHLIGHT_START...' and '...HIGHLIGHT_END...' must be replaced accordingly, e.g. for highlighting.]
├── old
│ └── signature_tagged <str> [A tagged version of the symbol signature. Taggs '...HIGHLIGHT_START...' and '...HIGHLIGHT_END...' must be replaced accordingly, e.g. for highlighting.]
├── related_symbols [A relation between two symbols]
│ ├── new <Symbol> [The new symbol]
│ ├── old <Symbol> [The old symbol]
│ └── size_delta <int> [Difference in bytes between the resource occupation of the two symbols]
└── similarities [Symbol similarity ratios]
├── instruction <float> [The percentage of symbol instruction similarity]
└── signature <float> [The percentage of symbol signature similarity]
migrated_symbol
├── display_info [Information that configures how things are displayed]
│ ├── anchor_id <str> [Unique string identifier token that can be used to generate a HTML anchor for cross references]
│ ├── display_symbol_details <bool> [True if symbol details are supposed to be displayed]
│ └── symbol_class <str> [The class of symbol old/new/appeared/disappeared/persisting/similar]
└── related_symbols [A relation between two symbols]
├── new <Symbol> [The new symbol]
├── old <Symbol> [The old symbol]
└── size_delta <int> [Difference in bytes between the resource occupation of the two symbols]
document.build_info = ''
document.configuration.debug_info_available = 'None'
document.configuration.display_appeared_symbols_overview = 'True'
document.configuration.display_binary_details = 'False'
document.configuration.display_build_info = 'False'
document.configuration.display_details = 'True'
document.configuration.display_disappeared_symbols_overview = 'True'
document.configuration.display_migrated_symbols = 'True'
document.configuration.display_migrated_symbols_overview = 'True'
document.configuration.display_new_binary_info = 'False'
document.configuration.display_old_binary_info = 'False'
document.configuration.display_persisting_symbols_overview = 'True'
document.configuration.display_similar_symbols = 'True'
document.configuration.display_similar_symbols_overview = 'True'
document.configuration.instructions_available = 'True'
document.files.input.new.binary_path = '../../tests/x86_64/libelf_diff_test_debug_new.a'
document.files.input.new.debug_info_available = 'True'
document.files.input.new.source_files = '{7: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a260>, 8: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a290>, 9: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a2c0>, 10: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a2f0>, 11: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a350>, 12: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a380>, 13: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf2940a3b0>}'
document.files.input.old.binary_path = '../../tests/x86_64/libelf_diff_test_debug_old.a'
document.files.input.old.debug_info_available = 'True'
document.files.input.old.source_files = '{0: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409b70>, 1: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409ba0>, 2: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409bd0>, 3: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409c00>, 4: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409c60>, 5: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409c90>, 6: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409cc0>}'
document.general.doc_title = 'ELF Binary Comparison'
document.general.document_version = '1'
document.general.elf_diff_repo_root = '/home/runner/work/elf_diff/elf_diff/src/elf_diff'
document.general.elf_diff_version = '3d17d62ace08ebf700cef3c9322aff184cc08269'
document.general.generation_date = '2026-09-25 06:48:53'
document.general.page_title = 'ELF Binary Comparison - (c) 2021 by noseglasses'
document.new_binary_info = ''
document.old_binary_info = ''
document.statistics.overall.delta.resource_consumption.bss = '0'
document.statistics.overall.delta.resource_consumption.code = '2'
document.statistics.overall.delta.resource_consumption.data = '0'
document.statistics.overall.delta.resource_consumption.static_ram = '0'
document.statistics.overall.delta.resource_consumption.text = '2'
document.statistics.overall.new.resource_consumption.bss = '0'
document.statistics.overall.new.resource_consumption.code = '331'
document.statistics.overall.new.resource_consumption.data = '8'
document.statistics.overall.new.resource_consumption.static_ram = '8'
document.statistics.overall.new.resource_consumption.text = '323'
document.statistics.overall.old.resource_consumption.bss = '0'
document.statistics.overall.old.resource_consumption.code = '329'
document.statistics.overall.old.resource_consumption.data = '8'
document.statistics.overall.old.resource_consumption.static_ram = '8'
document.statistics.overall.old.resource_consumption.text = '321'
document.statistics.symbols.appeared.count = '4'
document.statistics.symbols.disappeared.count = '4'
document.statistics.symbols.new.count.dropped = '0'
document.statistics.symbols.new.count.selected = '7'
document.statistics.symbols.new.count.total = '7'
document.statistics.symbols.new.regex.exclusion = ''
document.statistics.symbols.new.regex.selection = '.*'
document.statistics.symbols.old.count.dropped = '0'
document.statistics.symbols.old.count.selected = '7'
document.statistics.symbols.old.count.total = '7'
document.statistics.symbols.old.regex.exclusion = ''
document.statistics.symbols.old.regex.selection = '.*'
document.statistics.symbols.persisting.assembly_differs_count = '2'
document.statistics.symbols.persisting.count = '3'
document.statistics.symbols.persisting.resource_consumption.delta = '0'
document.statistics.symbols.persisting.resource_consumption.new = '40'
document.statistics.symbols.persisting.resource_consumption.old = '40'
document.statistics.symbols.similar.count = '10'
document.symbols.appeared = '{9: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f5540>, 10: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f5570>, 11: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f55d0>, 12: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f5660>}'
document.symbols.disappeared = '{2: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f5f30>, 3: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f5f60>, 4: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f5fc0>, 5: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f6050>}'
document.symbols.migrated = '{0: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409420>, 1: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409450>, 6: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29409510>}'
document.symbols.new = '{12: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4a30>, 13: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4a60>, 7: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4ac0>, 8: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4b50>, 9: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4bb0>, 10: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4c10>, 11: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f4c70>}'
document.symbols.old = '{5: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b4b20>, 6: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b4af0>, 0: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b4a90>, 1: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b4a00>, 2: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b49a0>, 3: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b4940>, 4: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295b48e0>}'
document.symbols.persisting = '{0: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f6dd0>, 1: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f6e00>, 6: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f6ec0>}'
document.symbols.similar = '{0: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf294088b0>, 1: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf29408910>, 2: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f7b50>, 3: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f7b20>, 4: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f7af0>, 5: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf293f7be0>, 6: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295a9690>, 7: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295a9750>, 8: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295a9930>, 9: <elf_diff.value_tree.Node object at 0x7fcf295a9a50>}'