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Manual Pages  — DWARF_ERRMSG

NAME

dwarf_errmsg – retrieve a human-readable string corresponding to a Dwarf_Error instance

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

DWARF Access Library (libdwarf, -ldwarf)

SYNOPSIS

#include <libdwarf.h>

const char *
dwarf_errmsg(Dwarf_Error err);

DESCRIPTION

Function dwarf_errmsg() returns a NUL- terminated string for the error denoted by argument err.

Argument err should be a valid handle to a Dwarf_Error instance.

Memory Management

The returned pointer should not be freed using free(3) or dwarf_dealloc(3).

RETURN VALUES

Function dwarf_errmsg() returns a pointer to a NUL- terminated string.

SEE ALSO

dwarf(3), dwarf_errno(3)

DWARF_ERRMSG (3) December 12, 2009

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