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32 .Nd ELF library error message handling
40 .Fn elf_errmsg "int error"
42 When an error occurs during an ELF library API call, the library
43 encodes the error using an error number and stores the error number
44 internally for retrieval by the application at a later point of time.
45 Error numbers may contain an OS supplied error code in addition to
46 an ELF API specific error code.
47 An error number value of zero indicates no error.
51 is used to retrieve the last error recorded by the ELF library.
52 Invoking this function has the side-effect of resetting the
53 ELF library's recorded error number to zero.
57 returns a null-terminated string with a human readable
58 description of the error specified in argument
60 A zero value for argument
62 retrieves the most recent error encountered by the ELF
64 An argument value of -1 behaves identically, except that
65 it guarantees a non-NULL return from
70 returns a non-zero value encoding the last error encountered
71 by the ELF library, or zero if no error was encountered.
75 returns a pointer to library local storage for non-zero values
78 With a zero argument, the function will return a NULL pointer if no
79 error had been encountered by the library, or will return a pointer to
80 library local storage containing an appropriate message otherwise.
82 Clearing the ELF library's recorded error number can be accomplished
85 and discarding its return value.
86 .Bd -literal -offset indent
91 Retrieving a human-readable description of the current error number
92 can be done with the following snippet:
93 .Bd -literal -offset indent
99 errmsg = elf_errmsg(err);