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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:30:22 -0500
To: "vipin aravind" <vipin DOT aravind AT wipro DOT com>,
   "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: gdb trouble
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Well if you can point us to documentation, I expect folks here would 
be happy and willing to read it.

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At 11:44 PM 11/20/2001, 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.
>vipin
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:35 PM
>Subject: Re: gdb trouble
>
>
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:43:22AM -0800, Katherina O'Connor wrote:
> > > ... ".pch" is a suffix for "pre-compiled" header
> > > files, a feature which is optionally, having
> > > nothing to do with debug. MSVC can generate debug
> >
> > Sorry, I meant the .pdb files or whatever the extension is.  The
> > format of these files is nowhere documented.
> >
> > > information either in a MS format or COFF. Not
> > > "understanding" COFF is a problem of gdb
> > > and not of MSVC.
> >
> > gdb understands coff but isn't that only generated by VC when
> > giving some special option?  I don't have VC installed anywhere.
> >
> > Corinna
> >
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