DWARF_GET_ABBREV_TAG(3)

💖 DWARF_GET_ABBREV_TAG 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the DWARF Access Library manual page for dwarf_get_abbrev_tag — she lives in libdwarf, and you link her with -ldwarf. this is genuinely one of the coziest functions in the whole DWARF situation, fr fr. 🧚

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <libdwarf.h>

int
dwarf_get_abbrev_tag(Dwarf_Abbrev abbrev, Dwarf_Half *ret,
    Dwarf_Error *err);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, dwarf_get_abbrev_tag() goes and grabs the tag for the abbreviation entry descriptor that argument abbrev is pointing at. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. she's a getter, she gets. 💅

Argument ret should point to a location which will hold the returned abbreviation tag. so like, give her somewhere to put the answer, bestie — a real place, in memory, that exists. 🎀

If argument err is not NULL, it will be used to store error information in case of an error. if you pass NULL? fine, iconic, she just won't tell you what went wrong. your choice. 🙈

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🌸 RETURN VALUES 🌸

Function dwarf_get_abbrev_tag() returns DW_DLV_OK when it succeeds — slay, we love a win. 🎉

In case of an error, it returns DW_DLV_ERROR and sets the argument err. not the vibe, but at least she tells you. 😭

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🔥 ERRORS 🔥

Function dwarf_get_abbrev_tag() can fail with:

• [DW_DLE_ARGUMENT] — either of arguments abbrev or ret was NULL. yeah. one of the two things you were supposed to hand her was literally nothing. 💀

no cap, do a little pointer check before you call, it's giving self-care.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• dwarf(3)
• dwarf_get_abbrev(3)
• dwarf_get_abbrev_children_flag(3)
• dwarf_get_abbrev_code(3)
• dwarf_get_abbrev_entry(3)

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that's the whole page, bestie — go read the whole little abbreviation squad, they're all icons. 🫶

💖 written for Debian, dated March 13, 2011 — yeah she's a 2011 girlie and she still ate 💖