These functions return a pointer to the ELF Section Header data
structure associated with section descriptor
scn
Function
elf32_getshdr ();
retrieves a pointer to an
Vt Elf32_Shdr
structure.
Section descriptor
scn
must be associated with an ELF descriptor of class
ELFCLASS32
Function
elf64_getshdr ();
retrieves a pointer to an
Vt Elf64_Shdr
structure.
Section descriptor
scn
must be associated with an ELF descriptor of class
ELFCLASS64
Function
gelf_getshdr ();
copies the values in the section header associated with argument
scn
to the structure pointed to be argument
dst
The
Vt GElf_Shdr
data structure is described in
gelf(3).
RETURN VALUES
Functions
elf32_getshdr ();
and
elf64_getshdr ();
return a valid pointer to the appropriate section header on success
or NULL if an error was encountered.
Function
gelf_getshdr ();
returns argument
dst
if successful, or NULL if an error was encountered.
ERRORS
These functions may fail with the following errors:
Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
Arguments
scn
or
shdr
were NULL.
Bq Er ELF_E_ARGUMENT
Argument
scn
was not associated a descriptor for an ELF object.
Bq Er ELF_E_CLASS
The ELF class associated with the section descriptor
scn
did not match the class expected by the API.