GELF_GETEHDR(3)

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✨ GELF_GETEHDR ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Libelf Programmer's Manual 💖 this one's called gelf_getehdr, and it's about grabbing the header of an ELF binary as a class-independent structure. yes, we're doing elf lore today. slay 🧚

🌸 NAME 🌸

gelf_getehdr — retrieve the header of an ELF binary as a class-independent structure 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

#include <gelf.h>

GElf_Ehdr *gelf_getehdr(Elf *elf, GElf_Ehdr *dest );

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, gelf_getehdr() goes and retrieves the ELF header of the binary that elf is pointing at, and it hands it to you as a class-independent GElf_Ehdr representation. it's giving "I don't care what class you are, I'll translate it for you" energy 👑

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

  • elf — a pointer to an ELF descriptor. your little handle on the binary 🫶
  • dest — a pointer to a caller-provided GElf_Ehdr structure that's gonna receive the translated file header. it must not be NULL, bestie, fr fr. on success, the function stores the header in *dest 💖

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

  • on success: returns dest. iconic. ✨
  • on failure: returns NULL and sets elf_errno. 💀
  • if elf is NULL: NULL is returned and elf_errno is not set. not even a little. no cap 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🍓 ATTRIBUTES 🍓

  • Interface: gelf_getehdr()
  • Attribute: Thread safety
  • Value: MT-Safe

so yeah, she's thread safe. main character behavior 💅

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, tell the girlies:

that's the whole vibe, bestie. go forth and read some ELF headers. 💜

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