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$Id: dwarf_get_globals.3 2071 2011-10-27 03:20:00Z jkoshy $

.Dd April 2, 2011 .Os .Dt DWARF_GET_GLOBALS 3 .Sh NAME .Nm dwarf_get_globals , .Nm dwarf_global_cu_offset , .Nm dwarf_global_die_offset , .Nm dwarf_global_name_offsets , .Nm dwarf_globname .Nd retrieve information about global objects .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libdwarf .Sh SYNOPSIS n libdwarf.h .Ft int .Fo dwarf_get_globals .Fa "Dwarf_Debug dbg" .Fa "Dwarf_Global **globals" .Fa "Dwarf_Signed *nglobals" .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err" .Fc .Ft int .Fo dwarf_global_cu_offset .Fa "Dwarf_Global global" .Fa "Dwarf_Off *cu_offset" .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err" .Fc .Ft int .Fo dwarf_global_die_offset .Fa "Dwarf_Global global" .Fa "Dwarf_Off *die_offset" .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err" .Fc .Ft int .Fo dwarf_global_name_offsets .Fa "Dwarf_Global global" .Fa "char **name" .Fa "Dwarf_Off *die_offset" .Fa "Dwarf_Off *cu_die_offset" .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err" .Fc .Ft int .Fo dwarf_globname .Fa "Dwarf_Global global" .Fa "char **name" .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err" .Fc .Sh DESCRIPTION These functions retrieve information about global symbols from the lookup tables in the .Dq ".debug_pubnames" DWARF section. Information about these global symbols is returned using opaque descriptors of type .Vt Dwarf_Global . Applications need to use the functions described below to retrieve the name and the offsets for these descriptors.

p Function .Fn dwarf_get_globals retrieves descriptors for all the global symbols associated with the DWARF debug context specified by argument .Ar dbg . The argument .Ar globals should point to a location that will be set to a pointer to an array of .Vt Dwarf_Global descriptors. The argument .Ar nglobals should point to a location that will be set to the number of descriptors returned.

p Function .Fn dwarf_global_cu_offset returns the section-relative offset, relative to the .Dq ".debug_info" section, of the compilation unit that contains the debugging information entry associated with the argument .Ar global . Argument .Ar cu_offset should point to a location that will hold the returned offset.

p Function .Fn dwarf_global_die_offset retrieves the section-relative offset, relative to the .Dq ".debug_info" section, of the debugging information entry associated with the argument .Ar global , and stores it into the location pointed to by the argument .Ar die_offset .

p Function .Fn dwarf_global_name_offsets retrieves the name and the offsets for the debugging information entry for argument .Ar global . Argument .Ar name should point to a location which will be set to a pointer to a NUL-terminated string containing the name of the associated debugging information entry. Argument .Ar die_offset should point to a location which will be set to a section-relative offset, relative to the .Dq ".debug_info" section, of the associated debugging information entry. Argument .Ar cu_die_offset should point to a location which will be set to a section-relative offset, relative to the .Dq ".debug_info" section, of the first debugging information entry in the compilation unit associated with argument .Ar global .

p Function .Fn dwarf_globname sets the location pointed to by argument .Ar name to a pointer to a NUL-terminated string holding the name of the debugging information entry associated with the argument .Ar global . .Ss Memory Management The memory area used for the array of .Vt Dwarf_Global descriptors returned in argument .Ar globals by function .Fn dwarf_get_globals is owned by the .Lb libdwarf . Application code should not attempt to directly free this pointer. Portable code should instead use the function .Xr dwarf_globals_dealloc 3 to indicate that the memory area may be freed.

p The memory area used for the string returned in the .Ar name argument to functions .Fn dwarf_globname and .Fn dwarf_global_name_offsets is owned by the .Lb libdwarf . Portable code should use the .Xr dwarf_dealloc 3 function to indicate that the memory area may be freed. .Ss Error Returns If argument .Ar err is not NULL, these functions will use it to store error information, in case of an error. .Sh RETURN VALUES On success, these functions returns .Dv DW_DLV_OK . In case of an error, they return .Dv DW_DLV_ERROR and set the argument .Ar err . .Sh ERRORS These functions may fail with the following errors: l -tag -width ".Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT" t Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT One of the arguments .Va cu_die_offset , .Va cu_offset , .Va dbg , .Va die_offset , .Va global , .Va globals , .Va name , or .Va nglobals was NULL. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr dwarf 3 , .Xr dwarf_dealloc 3 , .Xr dwarf_get_cu_die_offset_given_cu_header_offset 3 , .Xr dwarf_globals_dealloc 3