Linux Standard Base PDA Specification 3.0RC3
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dladdr

Name

dladdr -- find the shared object containing a given address

Synopsis

#include <dlfcn.h>

typedef struct {
             const char  *dli_fname;
             void        *dli_fbase;
             const char  *dli_sname;
             void        *dli_saddr;
} Dl_info;

int dladdr(const void * addr, Dl_info * dlip);

Description

The dladdr() function shall query the dynamic linker for information about the shared object containing the address addr. The information shall be returned in the user supplied data structure referenced by dlip.

The structure shall contain at least the following members:

dli_fname 

The pathname of the shared object containing the address

dli_fbase 

The base address at which the shared object is mapped into the address space of the calling process.

dli_sname 

The name of the nearest runtime symbol with value less than or equal to addr. Where possible, the symbol name shall be returned as it would appear in C source code.

If no symbol with a suitable value is found, both this field and dli_saddr shall be set to NULL.

dli_saddr 

The address of the symbol returned in dli_sname.

The behavior of dladdr() is only specified in dynamically linked programs.

Return Value

On success, dladdr() shall return non-zero, and the structure referenced by dlip shall be filled in as described. Otherwise, dladdr() shall return zero, and the cause of the error can be fetched with dlerr().

Errors

See dlerr().

Environment

LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

directory search-path for object files

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