dwarf_add_pubname(3)

dwarf_add_pubname3

Add information about a global object to a dwarf producer instance

Usage

#include <libdwarf.h>

Dwarf_Unsigned

dwarf_add_pubname(Dwarf_P_Debug dbg, Dwarf_P_Die die, char *name, Dwarf_Error *err);

Library

library “libdwarf”

Overview

Function dwarf_add_pubname() adds information about a global object to a DWARF producer instance.

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

Argument die specifies the debugging information entry associated with the global object.

Argument name should point to a NUL-terminated string containing the name of the global object.

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_pubname() returns a non-zero value. In case of an error, function dwarf_add_pubname() returns 0 and sets the argument err.

Errors

Function dwarf_add_pubname() can fail with:

[DW_DLE_ARGUMENT]

One of the arguments dbg, die or name 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.