dwarf_expr_current_offset(3)

dwarf_expr_current_offset3

Retrieve the number of bytes in a location expression stream

Usage

#include <libdwarf.h>

Dwarf_Unsigned

dwarf_expr_current_offset(Dwarf_P_Expr expr, Dwarf_Error *err);

Library

library “libdwarf”

Overview

Function dwarf_expr_current_offset() returns the size in bytes of the stream representation of a location expression.

Argument expr should reference a location expression descriptor allocated using dwarf_new_expr(3).

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_expr_current_offset() returns the size in bytes of the location descriptor's stream representation. In case of an error, function dwarf_expr_current_offset() returns DW_DLV_NOCOUNT and sets the argument err.

Errors

Function dwarf_expr_current_offset() can fail with:

[DW_DLE_ARGUMENT]

Argument expr 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.