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##### 23.2.4.2 gdb.types

This module provides a collection of utilities for working with `gdb.Types` objects.

`get_basic_type (`type`)`
  Return type with const and volatile qualifiers stripped, and with typedefs and C`++` references converted to the underlying type.

  C`++` example:

                typedef const int const_int;
                const_int foo (3);
                const_int& foo_ref (foo);
                int main () { return 0; }

  Then in gdb:

                (gdb) start
                (gdb) python import gdb.types
                (gdb) python foo_ref = gdb.parse_and_eval("foo_ref")
                (gdb) python print gdb.types.get_basic_type(foo_ref.type)
                int

`has_field (`type`,` field`)`
  Return `True` if type, assumed to be a type with fields (e.g., a structure or union), has field field.
`make_enum_dict (`enum_type`)`
  Return a Python `dictionary` type produced from enum_type.
`deep_items (`type`)`
  Returns a Python iterator similar to the standard `gdb.Type.iteritems` method, except that the iterator returned by `deep_items` will recursively traverse anonymous struct or union fields. For example:

                struct A
                {
                    int a;
                    union {
                        int b0;
                        int b1;
                    };
                };

  Then in gdb:

                (gdb) python import gdb.types
                (gdb) python struct_a = gdb.lookup_type("struct A")
                (gdb) python print struct_a.keys ()
                {['a', '']}
                (gdb) python print [k for k,v in gdb.types.deep_items(struct_a)]
                {['a', 'b0', 'b1']}