NAME

dwarf_add_AT_location_expr — create an attribute descriptor for a location expression

LIBRARY

DWARF Access Library (libdwarf, -ldwarf)

SYNOPSIS

#include <libdwarf.h>

Dwarf_P_Attribute
dwarf_add_AT_location_expr(Dwarf_P_Debug dbg, Dwarf_P_Die die, Dwarf_Half attr, Dwarf_P_Expr loc_expr, Dwarf_Error *err);

DESCRIPTION

Function dwarf_add_AT_location_expr() creates an attribute descriptor for a location expression and attaches it to the debugging information entry referenced by argument die.

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

Argument die should reference a debugging information entry allocated using dwarf_new_die(3).

Argument attr specifies the attribute code of the created attribute descriptor.

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

The attribute created by function dwarf_add_AT_location_expr() will have one of the DWARF forms DW_FORM_block, DW_FORM_block1, DW_FORM_block2 or DW_FORM_block4, depending on the size of the byte stream generated by the location expression descriptor referenced by argument loc_expr.

If argument err is not NULL, it will be used by to store error information in case of an error.

RETURN VALUES

On success, function dwarf_add_AT_location_expr() returns the created attribute descriptor. In case of an error, function dwarf_add_AT_location_expr() returns DW_DLV_BADADDR and sets the argument err.

ERRORS

Function dwarf_add_AT_location_expr() can fail with:

[DW_DLE_ARGUMENT]: One of the arguments dbg, die or loc_expr was NULL.
[DW_DLE_MEMORY]: An out of memory condition was encountered during the execution of the function.