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Re: [Bug manual/16262] Semantics of dladdr don't quite match documentation
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: "mtk.manpages at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 02:25:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Bug manual/16262] Semantics of dladdr don't quite match documentation
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- References: <bug-16262-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/> <bug-16262-131-JCRfyajMjx at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:08:07AM +0000, mtk.manpages at gmail dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16262
>
> --- Comment #5 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages at gmail dot com> ---
> (In reply to Ondrej Bilka from comment #1)
> > That is a documentation bug, manpage is bit clearer by saying that
> >
> > If no symbol matching addr could be found, then dli_sname and dli_saddr are
> > set to NULL.
>
> I've changed the text in the man page to
>
> const char *dli_sname; /* Name of symbol whose definition
> overlaps addr */
>
> Better, I hope(?).
>
Yes, thats better.