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Re: gdb and executables, windbg in ms platform sdf
- To: Lothar Werzinger <lwerzinger at krones dot de>
- Subject: Re: gdb and executables, windbg in ms platform sdf
- From: "Patrick J. Fay" <pfay at acl dot lanl dot gov>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:56:50 -0700 (MST)
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Hello Lothar,
coff is the format of the object file . The debug info gdb understands
is 'stabs' I think. This is probably not the format of
the debug info msvc++ puts into its object files.
I think the jan 98 ms platform sdk has a debugger in it.
http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk/platform.htm
What are you trying to accomplish?
Pat
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Lothar Werzinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I got no reply until now, I try to resen this (slightly modified)
> message
>
> Is it possible to debug executables which were produced by the MSVC++
> (DevStudio 97 Service Pack 2) compiler with gdb? As far as I know, gdb
> supports COFF. but when I load the executable, gdb complains about
> finding no debug information.
>
> As far as I found out gdb is capable of loading and executing the
> binary. The only thing I would need, is a converter that makes a gdb
> symbol file out of the *.pdb files of the MSVC++ compiler. Has anybody
> written such a program or is doing so? Besides the fact that the .pdb
> files are MS and binary, it should be just a question of demangling the
> MS names and remangle them in a way gdb understands them or?
>
> Lothar
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