HardenedBSD/contrib/elftoolchain/libelftc/elftc.3
Ed Maste 57d7e4cc2c elfcopy: set ELF OS/ABI field when converting from binary
PR:		228934
Submitted by:	Tiger Gao <tig@freebsdfoundation.org>
Reviewed by:	markj, jkoshy
MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23504
2020-02-12 15:59:59 +00:00

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.Dd February 12, 2020
.Dt ELFTC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm elftc
.Nd support routines used in the Elftoolchain project
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libelftc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In libelftc.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Lb libelftc
provides support routines used for developing the utilities in the
Elftoolchain source tree.
.Pp
This manual page serves as an overview of the functionality in this
library.
Additional reference information may be found in the individual
manual pages for the functions listed below.
.Ss Functional Grouping
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It "Binary Object Handling"
.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
.It Fn elftc_bfd_find_target
Locate a binary object descriptor.
.It Fn elftc_bfd_target_class
Query the ELF class for a binary object descriptor.
.It Fn elftc_bfd_target_byteorder
Query the byte order for a binary object descriptor.
.It Fn elftc_bfd_target_flavor
Query the object format for a binary object descriptor.
.It Fn elftc_bfd_target_machine
Query the target machine for a binary object descriptor.
.It Fn elftc_bfd_target_osabi
Query the target osabi for a binary object descriptor.
.El
.It "C++ support"
.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
.It Fn elftc_demangle
Decodes a symbol name encoded according to the encoding rules for the
C++ language.
.El
.It "Programming conveniences"
.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
.It Fn elftc_copyfile
Copies the contents of a file to another.
.It Fn elftc_set_timestamp
Portably set the time stamps on a file.
.El
.It "Project Configuration"
.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
.It Fn elftc_version
Returns a project-wide identifier string that encodes the source
revision of the source tree.
.El
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dwarf 3 ,
.Xr elf 3