DL_ITERATE_PHDR(3)					     Linux Programmer's Manual						DL_ITERATE_PHDR(3)

NAME

       dl_iterate_phdr - walk through list of shared objects

SYNOPSIS

       #define _GNU_SOURCE	   /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
       #include <link.h>

       int dl_iterate_phdr(
		 int (*callback) (struct dl_phdr_info *info,
				  size_t size, void *data),
		 void *data);

DESCRIPTION

       The dl_iterate_phdr() function allows an application to inquire at run time to find out which shared objects it has loaded.

       The  dl_iterate_phdr()  function  walks	through  the list of an application's shared objects and calls the function callback once for each
       object, until either all shared objects have been processed or callback returns a nonzero value.

       Each call to callback receives three arguments: info, which is a pointer to a structure containing information  about  the  shared  object;
       size,  which is the size of the structure pointed to by info; and data, which is a copy of whatever value was passed by the calling program
       as the second argument (also named data) in the call to dl_iterate_phdr().

       The info argument is a structure of the following type:

	   struct dl_phdr_info {
	       ElfW(Addr)	 dlpi_addr;  /* Base address of object */
	       const char	*dlpi_name;  /* (Null-terminated) name of
						object */
	       const ElfW(Phdr) *dlpi_phdr;  /* Pointer to array of
						ELF program headers
						for this object */
	       ElfW(Half)	 dlpi_phnum; /* # of items in dlpi_phdr */
	   };

       (The ElfW() macro definition turns its argument into the name of an ELF data type suitable for the hardware architecture.  For example,	on
       a  32-bit  platform,  ElfW(Addr)  yields the data type name Elf32_Addr.	Further information on these types can be found in the <elf.h> and
       <link.h> header files.)

       The dlpi_addr field indicates the base address of the shared object (i.e., the difference between the virtual memory address of the  shared
       object  and  the  offset  of that object in the file from which it was loaded).	The dlpi_name field is a null-terminated string giving the
       pathname from which the shared object was loaded.

       To understand the meaning of the dlpi_phdr and dlpi_phnum fields, we need to be aware that an ELF shared object consists  of  a	number	of
       segments,  each	of  which  has a corresponding program header describing the segment.  The dlpi_phdr field is a pointer to an array of the
       program headers for this shared object.	The dlpi_phnum field indicates the size of this array.

       These program headers are structures of the following form:

	   typedef struct {
	       Elf32_Word  p_type;    /* Segment type */
	       Elf32_Off   p_offset;  /* Segment file offset */
	       Elf32_Addr  p_vaddr;   /* Segment virtual address */
	       Elf32_Addr  p_paddr;   /* Segment physical address */
	       Elf32_Word  p_filesz;  /* Segment size in file */
	       Elf32_Word  p_memsz;   /* Segment size in memory */
	       Elf32_Word  p_flags;   /* Segment flags */
	       Elf32_Word  p_align;   /* Segment alignment */
	   } Elf32_Phdr;

       Note that we can calculate the location of a particular program header, x, in virtual memory using the formula:

	 addr == info->dlpi_addr + info->dlpi_phdr[x].p_vaddr;

RETURN VALUE

       The dl_iterate_phdr() function returns whatever value was returned by the last call to callback.

VERSIONS

       dl_iterate_phdr() has been supported in glibc since version 2.2.4.

CONFORMING TO

       The dl_iterate_phdr() function is Linux-specific and should be avoided in portable applications.

EXAMPLE

       The following program displays a list of pathnames of the shared objects it has loaded.	For each shared object, the program lists the vir-
       tual addresses at which the object's ELF segments are loaded.

       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include <link.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <stdio.h>

       static int
       callback(struct dl_phdr_info *info, size_t size, void *data)
       {
	   int j;

	   printf("name=%s (%d segments)
", info->dlpi_name,
	       info->dlpi_phnum);

	   for (j = 0; j < info->dlpi_phnum; j++)
		printf("		 header %2d: address=%10p
", j,
		    (void *) (info->dlpi_addr + info->dlpi_phdr[j].p_vaddr));
	   return 0;
       }

       int
       main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
	   dl_iterate_phdr(callback, NULL);

	   exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       }

SEE ALSO

       ldd(1), objdump(1), readelf(1), dlopen(3), elf(5), ld.so(8)

       Executable and Linking Format Specification, available at various locations online.

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2007-05-18							DL_ITERATE_PHDR(3)