From: jazz AT softway DOT com (Jason Zions)
Subject: Re: GNU debugger
3 Dec 1997 18:56:48 -0800
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To: Stan Shebs <shebs AT cygnus DOT com>
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> 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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