Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] GDB

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:31:24AM +0100, Jose Fonseca wrote:
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>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cg...@re...>
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>Subject: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] GDB
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>> FWIW, I'd love to have native PE-COFF debugging capabilities in gdb.  I
>> tried to push this through as a background project for one of the gdb
>> engineers who reported to me but real work (tm) kept intruding on the
>> project...
>>
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>Do you mean be able to read MSVC debugging info? If yes I also had it in my
>mind for Dr. Mingw which uses binutils code for reading the debugging info.
>But nowadays the debugging info is no longer in COFF but in PDB. There is
>very few information about this format, but is surely possible (at least for
>the windows platform) to read it using the relevent MS DLLs.

It is in PDB by default but you can also cause MSVC to use COFF format.
I think that COFF would be the easiest thing to tackle first.

However, if someone wants to tackle PDB, too, I wouldn't complain.  :-)

It's possible that this is all very easy if you use Microsoft's published
API for dealing with debugging, actually.

cgf