dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir(3)

dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir3

Create and attach a dw_at_comp_dir attribute

Usage

#include <libdwarf.h>

Dwarf_P_Attribute

dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir(Dwarf_P_Die die, char *dir, Dwarf_Error *err);

Library

library “libdwarf”

Overview

Function dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir() creates a DW_AT_comp_dir attribute descriptor and attaches it to the debugging information entry referenced by argument die. The created attribute will have DWARF form DW_FORM_strp.

Argument die should reference a debugging information entry allocated using dwarf_new_die(3).

Argument dir should point to a NUL-terminated string which will become the value of the created attribute.

If argument err is not NULL, it will be used to store error information in case of an error.

Return values

On success, function dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir() returns the created attribute descriptor. In case of an error, function dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir() returns DW_DLV_BADADDR and sets the argument err.

Errors

Function dwarf_add_AT_comp_dir() can fail with:

[DW_DLE_ARGUMENT]

Either of the arguments die or dir was NULL.

[DW_DLE_MEMORY]

An out of memory condition was encountered during the execution of the function.

Releases

25 releases since FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 11.0–12.0
  2. 12.1–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.