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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>,
   "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <1006263602006315 AT firemail DOT de> <20011120150524 DOT S14154 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <00b201c17247$3d29d240$b90806c0 AT vipin> <20011121102910 DOT F21630 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <003b01c17271$6ee225b0$0200a8c0 AT lifelesswks>
Subject: Re: gdb trouble
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:36:43 +1100
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And some more that caught my eye:
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaultframe.asp?page=/msj/0399/hood/hood03
99.htm&nav=/msj/0399/newnav.htm
Is an article about .dbg file formats - not written my MS, and includdes
references to pdb.
It also has a handy file cvinfo.h which is the header required to
manipulate codeview 4 data.

MSDN returns a hit on COFFTOCV.C which does what it says.

http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2001/08/0106.html
based on the info from the above header!

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q121/3/66.asp

These folk appear to be able to generate Codeview data (which is what is
in pdb files).
http://www.digitalmars.com/faq.html
and http://www.digitalmars.com/bibliography.html (see CV4)

Wine has/had pdb partial support
http://www.winehq.com/News/1999-49.html

http://www.tbcnet.com/~clive/vcomwinp.html
has a dumppe that understands codeview

http://www.rdbooks.com/store/products/rd2364.htm is an old book - maybe
there is a newer version with CV4 info?

http://www.wotsit.org/
is a useful site on file formats - nothing there, but if you ask, maybe
they know where to find it.

Codeview is also known as CV4 - a earch on that might help.
MSDN spat out this:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q194/9/21.ASP
which has some partial info on the Codeview format.

http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/GobugHelp/Symbolic.htm
isn't really helpful, butmay be of interest

Lastly, MSDN CD roms do have the Specification (CV5.0 Symbolic Debug
Information) But I'm afraid to open it :]. Perhaps someone you know can
create a clean room spec for you.

Rob

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: gdb trouble


> 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
>
>
> ===
> ----- 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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