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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: gdb trouble
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:46:45 +1100
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Some related articles:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/0/43.ASP
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwbgen
/html/msdn_peeringpe.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/d
bghelp_0l0n.asp?frame=true

To me it looks like there are 2 options.
1) add the user of the symbol handling library to gdb. That should allow
pdb use.
2) Using the symbol handling library, and (say) VC++, generate test
exe's with .pdb and reverse engineer the format. Once done, use the
resulting library in gdb.

Rob


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: gdb trouble


> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:14:43AM +0530, vipin aravind wrote:
> > I  had  been using  softice  debugger  on windows  which  is from
> > mega(  and  it understands pdb  format)  and  how   do they know
the
> > format?
> > I  think  it  would  be documented.
>
> Sure.  Somewhere.  Under NDA, I assume.
>
> Corinna
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