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  applica-
       tion'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 following fields were added in glibc 2.4, after the first
		  version of this structure was available.  Check the size
		  argument passed to the dl_iterate_phdr callback to determine
		  whether or not each later member is available.  */

	       unsigned long long int dlpi_adds;
			       /* Incremented when a new object may
				  have been added */
	       unsigned long long int dlpi_subs;
			       /* Incremented when an object may
				  have been removed */
	       size_t dlpi_tls_modid;
			       /* If there is a PT_TLS segment, its module
				  ID as used in TLS relocations, else zero */
	       void  *dlpi_tls_data;
			       /* The address of the calling thread's instance
				  of this module's PT_TLS segment, if it has
				  one and it has been allocated in the calling
			    thread, otherwise a null pointer */
	   };

       (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.  Fur-
       ther 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 seg-
       ments,  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.

ATTRIBUTES
       For  an	explanation  of	 the  terms  used   in	 this	section,   see
       attributes(7).

       +------------------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface	  | Attribute	  | Value   |
       +------------------+---------------+---------+
       |dl_iterate_phdr() | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +------------------+---------------+---------+

CONFORMING TO
       The dl_iterate_phdr() function is not specified in any standard.	 Vari-
       ous other systems provide a version of this function, although  details
       of  the	returned  dl_phdr_info	structure  differ.   On	 the  BSDs and
       Solaris,	 the  structure	 includes  the	fields	dlpi_addr,  dlpi_name,
       dlpi_phdr,  and dlpi_phnum in addition to other implementation-specific
       fields.

NOTES
       Future versions of  the	C  library  may	 add  further  fields  to  the
       dl_phdr_info  structure;	 in  that  event, the size argument provides a
       mechanism for the callback function to discover whether it  is  running
       on a system with added fields.

       The first object visited by callback is the main program.  For the main
       program, the dlpi_name field will be an empty string.

EXAMPLE
       The following program displays  a  list	of  pathnames  of  the	shared
       objects	it  has loaded.	 For each shared object, the program lists the
       virtual 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)\n", info->dlpi_name,
	       info->dlpi_phnum);

	   for (j = 0; j < info->dlpi_phnum; j++)
		printf("\t\t header %2d: address=%10p\n", 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), dladdr(3), dlopen(3), elf(5), ld.so(8)

       Executable and Linking Format Specification, available at various loca-
       tions online.

COLOPHON
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