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Manual Pages  — ELF_GETSHDRSTRNDX

NAME

elf_getshdrstrndx – retrieve the index of the section name string table

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

ELF Access Library (libelf, -lelf)

SYNOPSIS

#include <libelf.h>

int
elf_getshdrstrndx(Elf *elf, size_t *ndxptr);

DESCRIPTION

Function elf_getshdrstrndx() retrieves the section index of the string table containing section names from descriptor elf and stores it into the location pointed to by argument ndxptr.

This function allow applications to process both normal ELF objects and ELF objects that use extended section numbering uniformly.

RETURN VALUES

These functions return zero if successful, or -1 in case of an error.

ERRORS

These functions can fail with the following errors:
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT]
  A NULL value was passed in for argument elf.
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT]
  Argument elf was not for an ELF file.
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT]
  Argument elf lacks an ELF Executable header.
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT]
  Argument ndx contained a value in the reserved range of section indices.

SEE ALSO

elf(3), elf32_getehdr(3), elf64_getehdr(3), elf_getident(3), elf_getphdrnum(3), elf_getshdrnum(3), gelf(3), gelf_getehdr(3)

ELF_GETSHDRSTRNDX (3) August 5, 2009

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