Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/03/18:56:48
> GDB can read the files, but not the MS-specific debug information.
> Some MS compilers can generate standard COFF debug info, but that
> only works for C, not C++.
>
> > If not, do you plan to make GDB-WIN32 compatible with
> > MS compiler?
>
> At present, we don't know of anyone working on this addition. It would be
> very desirable however.
We looked at it for a while; there are parts of the MS debug information
that are either undocumented or incorrectly documented, and the whole
thing turned into a larger mess than was worth it to us.
Jason Zions
Softway Systems
Makers of OpenNT, POSIX for NT
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