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26 | .Dd December 24, 2012 |
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27 | .Os |
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28 | .Dt ELFTC 3 |
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29 | .Sh NAME |
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30 | .Nm elftc |
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31 | .Nd support routines used in the Elftoolchain project |
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32 | .Sh LIBRARY |
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33 | .Lb libelftc |
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34 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
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35 | .In libelftc.h |
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36 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
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37 | The |
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38 | .Lb libelftc |
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39 | provides support routines used for developing the utilities in the |
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40 | Elftoolchain source tree. |
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41 | .Pp |
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42 | This manual page serves as an overview of the functionality in this |
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43 | library. |
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44 | Additional reference information may be found in the individual |
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45 | manual pages for the functions listed below. |
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46 | .Ss Functional Grouping |
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47 | .Bl -tag -width indent |
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48 | .It "Binary Object Handling" |
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49 | .Bl -tag -compact |
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50 | .It Fn elftc_bfd_find_target |
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51 | Locate a binary object descriptor. |
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52 | .It Fn elftc_bfd_target_class |
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53 | Query the ELF class for a binary object descriptor. |
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54 | .It Fn elftc_bfd_target_byteorder |
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55 | Query the byte order for a binary object descriptor. |
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56 | .It Fn elftc_bfd_target_flavor |
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57 | Query the object format for a binary object descriptor. |
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58 | .It Fn elftc_bfd_target_machine |
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59 | Query the target machine for a binary object descriptor. |
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60 | .El |
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61 | .It "C++ support" |
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62 | .Bl -tag -compact |
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63 | .It Fn elftc_demangle |
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64 | Decodes a symbol name encoded according to the encoding rules for the |
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65 | C++ language. |
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66 | .El |
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67 | .It "Programming conveniences" |
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68 | .Bl -tag -compact |
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69 | .It Fn elftc_copyfile |
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70 | Copies the contents of a file to another. |
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71 | .It Fn elftc_set_timestamp |
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72 | Portably set the time stamps on a file. |
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73 | .El |
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74 | .It "Project Configuration" |
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75 | .Bl -tag -compact |
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76 | .It Fn elftc_version |
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77 | Returns a project-wide identifier string that encodes the source |
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78 | revision of the source tree. |
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79 | .El |
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80 | .El |
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81 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
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82 | .Xr dwarf 3 , |
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83 | .Xr elf 3 |
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