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26.Dd October 22, 2007
27.Dt ELF_FLAGDATA 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm elf_flagdata ,
31.Nm elf_flagehdr ,
32.Nm elf_flagelf ,
33.Nm elf_flagphdr ,
34.Nm elf_flagscn ,
35.Nm elf_flagshdr
36.Nd manipulate flags associated with ELF(3) data structures
37.Sh LIBRARY
38.Lb libelf
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In libelf.h
41.Ft "unsigned int"
42.Fn elf_flagdata "Elf_Data *data" "Elf_Cmd cmd" "unsigned int flags"
43.Ft "unsigned int"
44.Fn elf_flagehdr "Elf *elf" "Elf_Cmd cmd" "unsigned int flags"
45.Ft "unsigned int"
46.Fn elf_flagelf "Elf *elf" "Elf_Cmd cmd" "unsigned int flags"
47.Ft "unsigned int"
48.Fn elf_flagphdr "Elf *elf" "Elf_Cmd cmd" "unsigned int flags"
49.Ft "unsigned int"
50.Fn elf_flagscn "Elf_Scn *scn" "Elf_Cmd cmd" "unsigned int flags"
51.Ft "unsigned int"
52.Fn elf_flagshdr "Elf_Scn *scn" "Elf_Cmd cmd" "unsigned int flags"
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54These functions are used to query, set or reset flags on data
55structures associated with an ELF file.
56.Pp
57Arguments
58.Ar data ,
59.Ar elf
60and
61.Ar scn
62denote the data structures whose flags need to be changed.
63These values are allowed to be NULL to simplify error handling in
64application code.
65.Pp
66Argument
67.Ar cmd
68may have the following values:
69.Bl -tag -width ELF_C_SET
70.It Dv ELF_C_CLR
71The argument
72.Ar flags
73specifies the flags to be cleared.
74.It Dv ELF_C_SET
75The argument
76.Ar flags
77specifies the flags to be set.
78.El
79.Pp
80The argument
81.Ar flags
82is allowed to have the following flags set:
83.Bl -tag -width ELF_F_LAYOUT
84.It Dv ELF_F_DIRTY
85Mark the associated data structure as needing to be written back
86to the underlying file.
87A subsequent call to
88.Xr elf_update 3
89will resynchronize the library's internal data structures.
90.It Dv ELF_F_LAYOUT
91This flag is only valid with the
92.Fn elf_flagelf
93API.
94It informs the library that the application will take
95responsibility for the layout of the file and that the library is
96not to insert any padding in between sections.
97.El
98.Pp
99Marking a given data structure as
100.Dq dirty
101affects all of its contained elements.
102Thus marking an ELF descriptor
103.Ar elf
104with
105.Fn elf_flagelf "elf" "ELF_C_SET" "ELF_F_DIRTY"
106means that the entire contents of the descriptor are
107.Dq dirty .
108.Pp
109Using a value of zero for argument
110.Ar flags
111will return the current set of flags for the data structure being
112queried.
113.Sh RETURN VALUES
114These functions return the updated flags is successful, and zero if
115an error is detected.
116.Sh ERRORS
117These functions may fail with the following errors:
118.Bl -tag -width "[ELF_E_RESOURCE]"
119.It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
120An unsupported value was used for the
121.Ar cmd
122argument.
123.It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
124Argument
125.Ar flags
126had unsupported flags set.
127.It Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
128The argument
129.Ar elf
130was not a descriptor for an ELF object.
131.It Bq Er ELF_E_SEQUENCE
132Function
133.Fn elf_flagehdr
134was called without an executable header being allocated.
135.It Bq Er ELF_E_SEQUENCE
136Function
137.Fn elf_flagphdr
138was called without a program header being allocated.
139.El
140.Sh SEE ALSO
141.Xr elf 3 ,
142.Xr elf32_newehdr 3 ,
143.Xr elf32_newphdr 3 ,
144.Xr elf32_newshdr 3 ,
145.Xr elf64_newehdr 3 ,
146.Xr elf64_newphdr 3 ,
147.Xr elf64_newshdr 3 ,
148.Xr elf_newdata 3 ,
149.Xr elf_update 3 ,
150.Xr gelf 3 ,
151.Xr gelf_newehdr 3 ,
152.Xr gelf_newphdr 3 ,
153.Xr gelf_newshdr 3 ,
154.Xr gelf_update_dyn 3 ,
155.Xr gelf_update_move 3 ,
156.Xr gelf_update_rel 3 ,
157.Xr gelf_update_rela 3 ,
158.Xr gelf_update_sym 3 ,
159.Xr gelf_update_syminfo 3
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