nlist(3UCB) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Library Functions nlist(3UCB)NAMEnlist - get entries from symbol table
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/cc [ flag ... ] file ...
#include <nlist.h>
int nlist(filename, nl)
char *filename;
struct nlist *nl;
DESCRIPTIONnlist() examines the symbol table from the executable image whose name
is pointed to by filename, and selectively extracts a list of values
and puts them in the array of nlist structures pointed to by nl. The
name list pointed to by nl consists of an array of structures contain‐
ing names, types and values. The n_name field of each such structure is
taken to be a pointer to a character string representing a symbol name.
The list is terminated by an entry with a NULL pointer (or a pointer to
a NULL string) in the n_name field. For each entry in nl, if the named
symbol is present in the executable image's symbol table, its value and
type are placed in the n_value and n_type fields. If a symbol cannot be
located, the corresponding n_type field of nl is set to zero.
RETURN VALUES
Upon normal completion, nlist() returns the number of symbols that were
not located in the symbol table. If an error occurs, nlist() returns −1
and sets all of the n_type fields in members of the array pointed to by
nl to zero.
SEE ALSOcc(1B), nlist(3ELF), a.out(4)NOTES
Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only applications writ‐
ten on BSD platforms. Use of these interfaces with any of the system
libraries or in multi-thread applications is unsupported.
Only the n_value field is compatibly set. Other fields in the nlist
structure are filled with the ELF (Executable and Linking Format) val‐
ues (see nlist(3ELF) and a.out(4)).
SunOS 5.10 30 Oct 2007 nlist(3UCB)
