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31 .Nd process an ELF or ar(1) archive mapped into memory
37 .Fn elf_memory "char *image" "size_t size"
41 is used to process an ELF file or
43 archive whose image is present in memory.
47 points to the start of the memory image of the file or archive.
50 contains the size in bytes of the memory image.
52 The ELF descriptor is created for reading (i.e., analogous to the
55 with a command argument value of
60 returns a pointer to a new ELF descriptor if successful, or NULL if an
63 The return value may be queried for the file type using
66 To read parse an elf file, use:
67 .Bd -literal -offset indent
73 if ((fd = open("./elf-file", O_RDONLY)) < 0 ||
75 (p = mmap(NULL, sb.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, (off_t) 0)) ==
77 ... handle system error ...
80 if ((e = elf_memory(p, sb.st_size)) == NULL) {
81 ... handle elf(3) error ...
83 \&... use ELF descriptor "e" here ...
88 can fail with the following errors:
89 .Bl -tag -width "[ELF_E_RESOURCE]"
90 .It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
91 A NULL value was used for argument
93 or the value of argument
96 .It Bq Er ELF_E_HEADER
97 The header of the ELF object contained an unsupported value in its
100 .It Bq Er ELF_E_HEADER
101 The header of the ELF object contained an unsupported value in its
104 .It Bq Er ELF_E_RESOURCE
105 An out of memory condition was detected.
106 .It Bq Er ELF_E_SEQUENCE
109 was called before a working version was set using
111 .It Bq Er ELF_E_VERSION
114 corresponds to an ELF file with an unsupported version.