| NLIST(3) | MidnightBSD Library Functions Manual | NLIST(3) |
nlist — retrieve
symbol table name list from an executable file
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
#include
<nlist.h>
int
nlist(const
char *filename, struct
nlist *nl);
The
nlist()
function retrieves name list entries from the symbol table of an executable
file (see a.out(5)). The
argument nl is set to reference the beginning of the
list. The list is preened of binary and invalid data; if an entry in the
name list is valid, the n_type and
n_value for the entry are copied into the list
referenced by nl. No other data is copied. The last
entry in the list is always NULL.
The number of invalid entries is returned if successful; otherwise, if the file filename does not exist or is not executable, the returned value is -1.
A nlist() function appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
| April 19, 1994 | midnightbsd-3.1 |