From: pfay AT acl DOT lanl DOT gov (Patrick J. Fay)
Subject: Re: gdb and executables, windbg in ms platform sdf
28 Jan 1998 19:42:33 -0800
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To: Lothar Werzinger <lwerzinger AT krones DOT de>
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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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