1 .\" $NetBSD: dwarf_get_vars.3,v 1.2 2014/03/09 16:58:04 christos Exp $
3 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kai Wang
4 .\" All rights reserved.
6 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
7 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
9 .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
10 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
11 .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
12 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
13 .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
15 .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
16 .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
17 .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
18 .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
19 .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
20 .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
21 .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
22 .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
23 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
24 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
27 .\" Id: dwarf_get_vars.3 2071 2011-10-27 03:20:00Z jkoshy
34 .Nm dwarf_var_cu_offset ,
35 .Nm dwarf_var_die_offset ,
36 .Nm dwarf_var_name_offsets ,
38 .Nd retrieve information about static variables
46 .Fa "Dwarf_Var **vars"
47 .Fa "Dwarf_Signed *nvars"
48 .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
51 .Fo dwarf_var_cu_offset
53 .Fa "Dwarf_Off *cu_offset"
54 .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
57 .Fo dwarf_var_die_offset
59 .Fa "Dwarf_Off *die_offset"
60 .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
63 .Fo dwarf_var_name_offsets
66 .Fa "Dwarf_Off *die_offset"
67 .Fa "Dwarf_Off *cu_die_offset"
68 .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
74 .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
77 These functions retrieve information about the file scope static
78 variables associated with a DWARF debug context.
79 Information about these static variables is returned using opaque
82 Applications need to use the functions described below to retrieve
83 the name and offset information contained in these descriptors.
87 retrieves descriptors for all the static variables associated with the
88 DWARF debug context specified by argument
92 should point to a location that will be set to a pointer to an array
98 should point to a location that will be set to the number of
102 .Fn dwarf_var_cu_offset
103 returns the section-relative offset, relative to the
105 section, of the compilation unit that
106 contains the debugging information entry associated with the argument
110 should point to a location that will hold the returned offset.
113 .Fn dwarf_var_die_offset
114 retrieves the section-relative offset, relative to the
116 section, of the debugging information
117 entry associated with the argument
119 and stores it into the location pointed to by the argument
123 .Fn dwarf_var_name_offsets
124 retrieves both the name and the associated offsets for the debugging
125 information entry for argument
129 should point to a location which will be set to a pointer to a
130 NUL-terminated string containing the name of the associated debugging
134 should point to a location which will be set to a section-relative
135 offset, relative to the
137 section, of the associated debugging information entry.
140 should point to a location which will be set to a
141 section-relative offset, relative to the
143 section, of the first debugging information entry in
144 the compilation unit associated with argument
149 sets the location pointed to by argument
151 to a pointer to a NUL-terminated string holding the name of the
152 debugging information entry associated with the argument
154 .Ss Memory Management
155 The memory area used for the array of
157 descriptors returned in argument
163 Application code should not attempt to directly free this pointer.
164 Portable code should instead use the function
165 .Xr dwarf_vars_dealloc 3
166 to indicate that the memory area may be freed.
168 The memory area used for the string returned in the
170 argument to functions
171 .Fn dwarf_var_name_offsets
176 Portable code should indicate that the memory area can
183 is not NULL, these functions will use it to store error information,
186 On success, these functions returns
188 In case of an error, they return
193 These functions may fail with the following errors:
194 .Bl -tag -width ".Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT"
195 .It Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT
210 .Xr dwarf_dealloc 3 ,
211 .Xr dwarf_get_cu_die_offset_given_cu_header_offset 3 ,
212 .Xr dwarf_vars_dealloc 3