# Getting Image Details

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## Overview

> - The linker provides options for getting information about the files it generates.
> - You can use following options to get information about how your file is generated by the linker, and also extract useful diagnostic information during the linking process.

## Supported Diagnostic Options

> - **--Map**
>   : Displays the image memory map, and contains the address and the size of each load region, execution region, and input section in the image, including linker-generated input sections.
> - **-MapStyle=[Text|YAML|Binary]**
>   : Display the Map information in Text/YAML/Binary format.
> - **--MapDetail \<value>**
>   : Detail information in the map file
> - **--verbose**
>   : Displays detailed information about the link operation, including the objects that are included and the libraries that contain them.
> - **--trace**
>   : Allows tracing of various information in linker.
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>     - **all-symbols** - tracing of all symbols
>     - **reloc** - tracing of relocations
>     - **symbol=\<symbol name>** - Allows tracing of a particular symbol. It also supports regular expressions
>     - **section=\<section name>** - Allows tracing of a particular section. Supports regular expressions.
>     - **GarbageCollection** - tracing of garrbage collected symbols
>     - **Trampolines** - tracing of trampolines.
>     - **LTO** - Allows tracing of LTO.
> - **--color \<value>**
>   : Enable color output for diagnostics
> - **-display_hotness \<value>**
>   : Display hotness information for optimization remarks
> - **--emit-timing-stats \<value>**
>   : Emit time statistics of various linker operations to the specified file
> - **--print-timing-stats**
>   : Print time statistics of various linker operations to console
> - **--time-region \<value>**
>   : - Emit time statistics for specified region of linker operation.
>     - Users can provide \<value> as "plugin" to display timing stats of all user plugins
>     - Otherwise, we can provide particular plugin's name as \<value> of --time-region option to display stats of a particular plugin.
> - **--version**
>   : Print the Linker version and also lists the targets supported by the linker.