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Highlights: - Fix man page markup, whitespace, and typos - Fix sh_info of SHT_GROUP section to point to the correct string - Improve validation in readelf and elfcopy/strip - Handle DWARF 4's DW_AT_high_pc in addr2line Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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3.0 KiB
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110 lines
3.0 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Joseph Koshy
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $Id: dwarf_formblock.3 3182 2015-04-10 16:08:10Z emaste $
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.\"
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.Dd July 23, 2010
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.Os
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.Dt DWARF_FORMBLOCK 3
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm dwarf_formblock
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.Nd return the value of a BLOCK attribute
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libdwarf
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In libdwarf.h
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.Ft int
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.Fo dwarf_formblock
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.Fa "Dwarf_Attribute attr"
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.Fa "Dwarf_Block **ret"
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.Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
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.Fc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Function
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.Fn dwarf_formblock
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sets the location pointed to by argument
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.Ar ret
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to a pointer to a
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.Vt Dwarf_Block
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structure containing the value of the attribute referenced
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by argument
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.Ar attr .
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The form of argument
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.Ar attr
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must be one of
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.Dv DW_FORM_block ,
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.Dv DW_FORM_block1 ,
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.Dv DW_FORM_block2
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or
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.Dv DW_FORM_block4 .
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.Pp
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If argument
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.Ar err
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is not NULL, it will be used to return an error descriptor in case
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of an error.
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.Ss Memory Management
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The memory area referenced by the returned pointer is managed by
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the DWARF(3) library.
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The application should not attempt to free this memory
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area.
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Portable code may indicate that the memory area is to be freed by
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using
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.Xr dwarf_dealloc 3 .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Function
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.Fn dwarf_formblock
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returns
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.Dv DW_DLV_OK
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on success.
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In case of an error, it returns
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.Dv DW_DLV_ERROR
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and sets argument
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.Ar err .
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.Sh ERRORS
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Function
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.Fn dwarf_formblock
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may fail with the following errors:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Bq Er DW_DLE_ATTR_FORM_BAD"
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.It Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT
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Either of arguments
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.Ar attr
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or
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.Ar ret
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was NULL.
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.It Bq Er DW_DLE_ATTR_FORM_BAD
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The attribute referenced by argument
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.Ar attr
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was not of a permitted kind.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr dwarf 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_attr 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_formflag 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_formref 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_formsdata 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_formsig8 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_formstring 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_formudata 3 ,
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.Xr dwarf_hasattr 3
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