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DLERROR(3)               BSD Library Functions Manual               DLERROR(3)

NAME
     dlerror -- get diagnostic information

SYNOPSIS
     #include <dlfcn.h>

     const char*
     dlerror(void);

DESCRIPTION
     dlerror() returns a null-terminated character string describing the last error that occurred on this
     thread during a call to dlopen(), dlopen_preflight(), dlsym(), or dlclose().  If no such error has
     occurred, dlerror() returns a null pointer.  At each call to dlerror(), the error indication is reset.
     Thus in the case of two calls to dlerror(), where the second call follows the first immediately, the
     second call will always return a null pointer.

SEE ALSO
     dlopen(3) dlopen_preflight(3) dlclose(3) dlsym(3) dyld(3)

                                April 17, 2006