Lexical Hierarchy of Symbol Types

The following table shows the symbol types in the lexical hierarchy.

Symbol Types

Symbol type	Description
Annotation	Specifies an annotated location in program code.
Block	Specifies nested scopes in functions.
Compiland	Specifies a compiland linked to the .exe file.
CompilandDetails	Specifies compiland data that may require loading additional compiland details and thus incur run-time overhead to retrieve.
CompilandEnv	Specifies any additional environment variables significant to the compilation of the compiland.
Custom (Debug Interface Access SDK)	Specifies a user-defined symbol.
Data (Debug Interface Access SDK)	Specifies such variables as parameters, local variables, global variables, and class members.
Exe	Specifies the global scope of the data; corresponds to an entire .exe or .dll file.
FuncDebugEnd	Specifies a function that has a defined point at which debugging is to end.
FuncDebugStart	Specifies a function that has a defined point at which debugging is to begin.
Function (Debug Interface Access SDK)	Specifies a function.
Label (Debug Interface Access SDK)	Specifies a location in program code.
PublicSymbol	Specifies an external symbol that appears when building the executable program.
Thunk	Specifies a thunk.
UsingNameSpace	Specifies a namespaceidentifier.

备注

Additional symbol properties may be available depending on the symbol type. These properties are listed in the individual symbol topics.

See Also

Reference

Class Hierarchy of Symbol Types

IDiaSymbol::get_symTag

SymTagEnum

Other Resources

Symbols and Symbol Tags