ELFTC_VERSION(3)

💜 ELFTC_VERSION(3) — the version-string bestie 💜

okay so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual (libelftc girlies rise up 🫶), and it's literally just about one tiny function that tells you what version of elftoolchain you're running. no cap, it's short and sweet.

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✨ NAME ✨

elftc_version — returns a project-wide version identifier string 🎀

📚 LIBRARY 📚

library “libelftc” — that's where she lives, bestie 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <libelftc.h>

const char *
elftc_version(void);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Function elftc_version() returns a project-wide identifier string that encodes the source revision of the project source tree. it's giving "receipt for your whole source tree" energy 🧾✨

The returned identifier has four space-separated fields, and yes we're going through all of them because they all matter:

• Project-Name — This is always “elftoolchain”. every time. iconic consistency, periodt 👑
• Project-Branch — The branch name for the project source tree. which branch you're on, bestie 🌿
• Build-OS — The operating system that the tool chain was compiled for. like, what OS built this? 🖥️
• Version-Number — A tree-wide version number extracted from the version control system in use. ✨

💖 RETURN VALUES 💖

Function elftc_program_version() returns a pointer to an internal character buffer. (yes, the page really says elftc_program_version() here — that's what's written, so that's what I'm telling you 🙈💀)

lowkey important: it's a pointer to an internal buffer — not a fresh copy you get to keep, so don't go freeing or mangling it 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

To retrieve and print the current toolchain version identifier, use:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <libelftc.h>

(void) printf("%s\n", elftc_version());

On the HEAD branch of the project's sources, when checked out using Subversion and compiled on a NetBSD host, this would print:

“elftoolchain HEAD NetBSD svn:REVINFO”

where REVINFO would be the current revision information for the project source tree. so cute, so informative, ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨

💀 ERRORS 💀

Function elftc_program_version() always succeeds. that's it. that's the whole section. no error path, no drama, she just works 😌💅

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🌟 and that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and print your version strings with confidence 🧚💜

sign-off time! 🎀 this page is from the Debian folks, dated December 30, 2012, and it's the ELFTC_VERSION(3) manual page. iykyk 💖