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27 .Dd September 13, 2011
29 .Dt DWARF_EXPR_INTO_BLOCK 3
31 .Nm dwarf_expr_into_block
32 .Nd retrieve the byte stream for a location expression
38 .Fo dwarf_expr_into_block
39 .Fa "Dwarf_P_Expr expr"
40 .Fa "Dwarf_Unsigned *length"
41 .Fa "Dwarf_Error *err"
45 .Fn dwarf_expr_into_block
46 retrieves the byte stream representation of a location expression.
50 should reference a location expression descriptor allocated using
51 .Xr dwarf_new_expr 3 .
55 should point to a location which will hold the size in bytes of
56 the retrieved byte stream.
60 is not NULL, it will be used to store error information in case
64 .Fn dwarf_expr_into_block
65 returns the address of the first byte of the generated byte stream.
66 In case of an error, function
67 .Fn dwarf_expr_into_block
74 .Fn dwarf_expr_into_block
76 .Bl -tag -width ".Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT"
77 .It Bq Er DW_DLE_ARGUMENT
83 .It Bq Er DW_DLE_MEMORY
84 An out of memory condition was encountered during the execution of
89 .Xr dwarf_add_AT_location_expr 3 ,
90 .Xr dwarf_add_expr_addr 3 ,
91 .Xr dwarf_add_expr_addr_b 3 ,
92 .Xr dwarf_add_expr_gen 3 ,
93 .Xr dwarf_expr_current_offset 3 ,