SymGetTypeFromName Function

Retrieves a type index for the specified type name.

BOOL WINAPI SymGetTypeFromName(
  __in          HANDLE hProcess,
  __in          ULONG64 BaseOfDll,
  __in          PCTSTR Name,
  __out         PSYMBOL_INFO Symbol
);

Parameters

hProcess

A handle to a process. This handle must have been previously passed to the SymInitialize function.

BaseOfDll

The base address of the module.

Name

The name of the type.

Symbol

A pointer to a SYMBOL_INFO structure. The TypeIndex member contains the type index.

Return Value

If the function succeeds, the return value is TRUE.

If the function fails, the return value is FALSE. To retrieve extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

To retrieve information about the type, pass the type index to the SymGetTypeInfo function.

All DbgHelp functions, such as this one, are single threaded. Therefore, calls from more than one thread to this function will likely result in unexpected behavior or memory corruption. To avoid this, you must synchronize all concurrent calls from more than one thread to this function.

To call the Unicode version of this function, define DBGHELP_TRANSLATE_TCHAR.

Requirements

Redistributable	Requires DbgHelp.dll 5.1 or later.
Header	Declared in Dbghelp.h.
Library	Use Dbghelp.lib.
DLL	Requires Dbghelp.dll.
Unicode	Implemented as SymGetTypeFromNameW (Unicode) and SymGetTypeFromName (ANSI).

See Also

DbgHelp FunctionsSYMBOL_INFO
SymGetTypeInfo

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Build date: 9/25/2007