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Manual Pages  — DWARF_GET_TYPES

NAME

dwarf_get_types, dwarf_type_cu_offset, dwarf_type_die_offset, dwarf_type_name_offsets, dwarf_typename – retrieve information about user-defined types

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

DWARF Access Library (libdwarf, -ldwarf)

SYNOPSIS

#include <libdwarf.h>

int
dwarf_get_types(Dwarf_Debug dbg, Dwarf_Type **types, Dwarf_Signed *ntypes, Dwarf_Error *err);

int
dwarf_type_cu_offset(Dwarf_Type type, Dwarf_Off *cu_offset, Dwarf_Error *err);

int
dwarf_type_die_offset(Dwarf_Type type, Dwarf_Off *die_offset, Dwarf_Error *err);

int
dwarf_type_name_offsets(Dwarf_Type type, char **name, Dwarf_Off *die_offset, Dwarf_Off *cu_die_offset, Dwarf_Error *err);

int
dwarf_typename(Dwarf_Type type, char **name, Dwarf_Error *err);

DESCRIPTION

These APIs retrieve information about user-defined types from the SGI-specific ".debug_typenames" section.

Standards-conformant applications should use the functions dwarf_get_pubtypes(3), dwarf_pubtype_cu_offset(3), dwarf_pubtype_die_offset(3), dwarf_pubtype_name_offsets(3) and dwarf_pubtypename(3), which operate on the equivalent ".debug_pubtypes" section defined by the DWARF3 standard.

Information about user-defined types is returned using opaque descriptors of type Dwarf_Type. Applications need to use the functions described below to retrieve the name and offset information contained in these descriptors.

Function dwarf_get_types() retrieves descriptors for all user-defined types associated with the DWARF debug context specified by argument dbg. The argument types should point to a location that will be set to a pointer to an array of Dwarf_Type descriptors. The argument ntypes should point to a location that will be set to the number of descriptors returned.

Function dwarf_type_cu_offset() returns the offset, relative to the ".debug_info" section, of the compilation unit that contains the debugging information entry associated with the argument type. Argument cu_offset should point to a location that will hold the returned offset.

Function dwarf_type_die_offset() retrieves the offset, relative to the ".debug_info" section, of the debugging information entry associated with the argument type, and stores it into the location pointed to by the argument die_offset.

Function dwarf_type_name_offsets() retrieves the name and offsets for the debugging information entry for argument type. Argument name should point to a location which will be set to a pointer to a NUL-terminated string containing the name of the associated debugging information entry. Argument die_offset should point to a location which will be set to the offset, relative to the ".debug_info" section, of the associated debugging information entry. Argument cu_die_offset should point to a location which will be set to a offset, relative to the ".debug_info" section, of the first debugging information entry in the compilation unit associated with argument type.

Function dwarf_typename() sets the location pointed to by argument name to a pointer to a NUL-terminated string holding the name of the debugging information entry associated with the argument type.

Memory Management

The memory area used for the array of Dwarf_Type descriptors returned in argument types by function dwarf_get_types() is owned by the DWARF Access Library (libdwarf, -ldwarf)Application code should not attempt to directly free this pointer. Portable code should instead use the function dwarf_types_dealloc(3) to indicate that the memory area may be freed.

The memory area used for the string returned in the name argument to functions dwarf_type_name_offsets() and dwarf_typename() is owned by the DWARF Access Library (libdwarf, -ldwarf)Portable code should indicate that the memory area can be freed using the dwarf_dealloc(3) function.

Error Returns

If argument err is not NULL, these functions will use it to store error information, in case of an error.

RETURN VALUES

On success, these functions returns DW_DLV_OK. In case of an error, they return DW_DLV_ERROR and set the argument err.

ERRORS

These functions may fail with the following errors:
[DW_DLE_ARGUMENT] One of the arguments cu_die_offset, cu_offset, dbg, die_offset, type, types, name, or ntypes was NULL.
[DW_DLE_NO_ENTRY] The DWARF debugging context referenced by argument dbg did not contain information about user-defined types.

SEE ALSO

dwarf(3), dwarf_get_cu_die_offset_given_cu_header_offset(3), dwarf_get_pubtypes(3), dwarf_pubtype_cu_offset(3), dwarf_pubtype_die_offset(3), dwarf_pubtype_name_offsets(3), dwarf_pubtypename(3), dwarf_types_dealloc(3)

DWARF_GET_TYPES (3) April 10, 2011

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