freebsd-dev/contrib/elftoolchain/libelf/elf_getshnum.3
Ed Maste ae500c1ff8 Update to ELF Tool Chain r3668
Highlights:
- Make sure that only TLS sections are sorted into TLS segment.
- Fixed multiple errors in "Section to Segment mapping".
- Man page updates
- ar improvements
- elfcopy: avoid filter_reloc uninitialized variable for rela
- elfcopy: avoid stripping relocations from static binaries
- readelf: avoid printing directory in front of absolute path
- readelf: add NT_FREEBSD_FEATURE_CTL FreeBSD note type
- test improvements

NOTES:

Some of these changes originated in FreeBSD and simply reduce diffs
between contrib and vendor.

ELF Tool Chain ar is not (currently) used in FreeBSD, and there are
improvements in both FreeBSD and ELF Tool Chain ar that are not in
the other.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2019-01-10 14:35:23 +00:00

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.Dd August 5, 2009
.Dt ELF_GETSHNUM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm elf_getshnum
.Nd return the number of sections in an ELF file
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libelf
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In libelf.h
.Ft int
.Fn elf_getshnum "Elf *elf" "size_t *shnum"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This function is deprecated.
Please use
.Xr elf_getshdrnum 3
instead.
.Pp
Function
.Fn elf_getshnum
retrieves the number of ELF sections associated with descriptor
.Ar elf
and stores it into the location pointed to by argument
.Ar shnum .
.Pp
This routine allows applications to uniformly process both normal ELF
objects, and ELF objects that use extended section numbering.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Function
.Fn elf_getshnum
returns a non-zero value if successful, or zero in case of an
error.
.Sh ERRORS
Function
.Fn elf_getshnum
can fail with the following errors:
.Bl -tag -width "[ELF_E_RESOURCE]"
.It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
A NULL value was passed in for argument
.Ar elf .
.It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
Argument
.Ar elf
was not for an ELF file.
.It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
Argument
.Ar elf
lacks an ELF Executable header.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr elf 3 ,
.Xr elf32_getehdr 3 ,
.Xr elf64_getehdr 3 ,
.Xr elf_getident 3 ,
.Xr elf_getphdrnum 3 ,
.Xr elf_getshdrstrndx 3 ,
.Xr gelf 3 ,
.Xr gelf_getehdr 3