die_get_type(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the die_get_type(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — this one is literally about getting a type DIE, and it's lowkey iconic 💅

die_get_type — Get type DIE ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Dwarf_Die * die_get_type (Dwarf_Die *vr_die , Dwarf_Die *die_mem );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• vr_die — a DIE of a variable 🫶
• die_mem — where to store a type DIE 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Get a DIE of the type of given variable (vr_die), and store it to die_mem. Return NULL if fails to get a type DIE.

it's giving matchmaker energy, fr fr: you hand over the variable DIE, it grabs the type DIE, and it tucks it into die_mem 💖 if it fails to get a type DIE, you get NULL — no cap 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c — and the whole squad is right here, bestie 🌈

• cu_find_realpath(9)
• cu_get_comp_dir(9)
• cu_find_lineinfo(9)
• cu_walk_functions_at(9)
• die_get_linkage_name(9)
• die_compare_name(9)
• die_match_name(9)
• die_get_call_lineno(9)
• die_get_real_type(9)
• die_get_pointer_type(9)
• die_is_signed_type(9)
• die_is_func_def(9)
• die_entrypc(9)
• die_is_func_instance(9)
• die_get_data_member_location(9)
• die_get_call_file(9)
• die_get_decl_file(9)
• die_find_child(9)
• die_find_tailfunc(9)
• die_find_realfunc(9)
• die_find_top_inlinefunc(9)
• die_find_inlinefunc(9)
• die_find_func_rettype(9)
• die_walk_instances(9)
• die_walk_lines(9)
• die_find_variable_at(9)
• die_find_member(9)
• die_get_typename_from_type(9)
• die_get_typename(9)
• die_get_varname(9)
• die_get_var_innermost_scope(9)
• die_get_var_range(9)
• is_breg_access_indirect(9)
• die_find_variable_by_reg(9)
• die_find_variable_by_addr(9)
• die_collect_vars(9)
• die_collect_global_vars(9)
• die_get_cfa(9)
• die_get_scopes(9)
• die_get_member_type(9)
• die_deref_ptr_type(9)

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source/version: ./tools/perf/util ✨ date: October 2026 ✨ page: die_get_type(9) — bye bestie, mwah 🫶💖