From: Christopher F. <cg...@re...> - 2001-09-17 18:25:30
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:31:24AM +0100, Jose Fonseca wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cg...@re...> >To: <min...@li...> >Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:58 PM >Subject: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] GDB > > >... > >> 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... >> > >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 |