libdwarf get_*_desc functions

Robert Millan rmh at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 11 11:55:47 UTC 2013


Hi,

Regarding these four libdwarf.so symbols:

00000000000048c0 T get_attr_desc
0000000000004ae0 T get_form_desc
0000000000004770 T get_sht_desc
0000000000004bb0 T get_tag_desc

I've observed that:

- They don't follow the usual libdwarf naming convention (dwarf_*).

and

- They aren't used anywhere else in world.

This makes me suspect their purpose is only for internal use within libdwarf.

Is it intentional that they're public symbols?

--
Robert Millan


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