dlerror(3C)                                              dlerror(3C)


       NAME
             dlerror - get diagnostic information

       SYNOPSIS
             #include <dlfcn.h>
             char *dlerror(void);

       DESCRIPTION
             dlerror returns a null-terminated character string (with no
             trailing newline) that describes the last error that occurred
             during dynamic linking processing.  If no dynamic linking
             errors have occurred since the last invocation of dlerror,
             dlerror returns NULL.  Thus, invoking dlerror a second time,
             immediately following a prior invocation, results in NULL
             being returned.

       REFERENCES
             dlclose(3C), dlopen(3C), dlsym(3C)

       NOTICES
             The messages returned by dlerror may reside in a static buffer
             that is overwritten on each call to dlerror.  Application code
             should not write to this buffer.  Programs wishing to preserve
             an error message should make their own copies of that message.
























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