[Mingw-users] Re: Debug symbols compatible with Microsoft

[Ranjit M. <rm...@ho...>]

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> GCC does support COFF debug output (via the -gcoff flag),
> but the MS debugger no longer uses it - MSVC moved to a
> separate (from the EXE) PDB/DBG style debugging info a
> long time back.

For more information on this, see this bit from the MSDN library:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_core_the_..pdb_files.asp

and Q121366 from the MS KB:

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

Ranjit.

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