die_get_varname(9)

💖 die_get_varname(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to die_get_varname(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes we're in the kernel docs, and yes we're gonna make it make sense 🫶

🌸 NAME

die_get_varname — grab the name and the type of a given variable DIE. that's the whole assignment, icon behavior honestly 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS

int die_get_varname (Dwarf_Die *vr_die , struct strbuf *buf );

🎀 ARGUMENTS

• vr_die — a variable DIE. like, the DIE in question. the main character 🌟
• buf — a strbuf that's gonna hold the type and the variable name. it's the vessel, it's the moment 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION

so what it does is: it takes vr_die, gets its name and its type, and stores the whole thing in buf as "typename". that's it. that's the vibe. type + name, together, slaying in one buffer ✨

ngl, short and sweet — no hidden lore here, bestie. it literally just does the one thing 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO

okay this is the friend group, and it's a BIG friend group. everybody in Kernel file ./tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c is here 💜

• 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_type(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_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)

like, forty-one siblings. ate and left zero crumbs 😭🔥

and that's the page, bestie!! courtesy of that ./tools/perf/util life, dated October 2026 — go read your DWARF, drink some water, and remember: type + name, into the buffer, periodt 💅🎀🦋