nlist.3: Add discouraged use notice

It is a relic from a.out days and is poorly specified. Although ELF
support was added to nlist, there are better ways to access ELF data.

Reviewed by:	kib
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57078

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Ed Maste

2026-05-17 10:29:29 -04:00

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lib/libc/gen/nlist.3

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@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn nlist
 function is provided for compatibility with legacy applications.
 Its use is discouraged.
 The
 .Fn nlist
 function
 retrieves name list entries from the
 .Xr elf 5