dwarf_add_die_to_debug(3)

dwarf_add_die_to_debug3

Set the root debugging information entry

Usage

#include <libdwarf.h>

Dwarf_Unsigned

dwarf_add_die_to_debug(Dwarf_P_Debug dbg, Dwarf_P_Die first_die, Dwarf_Error *err);

Library

library “libdwarf”

Overview

Function dwarf_add_die_to_debug() sets the root debugging information entry of a DWARF producer instance. All debugging information entries linked to the root entry will also be added to the producer instance.

Argument dbg should reference a DWARF producer instance allocated using dwarf_producer_init(3) or dwarf_producer_init_b(3).

Argument first_die should hold the debugging information entry which will become the root DIE.

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_die_to_debug() returns DW_DLV_OK. In case of an error, function dwarf_add_die_to_debug() returns DW_DLV_NOCOUNT and sets the argument err.

Errors

Function dwarf_add_die_to_debug() can fail with:

[DW_DLE_ARGUMENT]

Either of the arguments dbg or first_die was NULL.

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.