Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW works for windows scsi miniport driver?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Brian Dessent <br...@de...>:

> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>> >> In my opinion, since MinGW cannot provide a .pdb file,
>> >> windbg cannot locate error point correctly. And the main reason of
>> >> system crashing also on xenvbd driver.
>> >
>> > MinGW (and GCC) don't use separate files for debug symbols (e.g. *.pdb
>> > files). MinGW embeds the debugging information directly into object
>> > files and executables. Just passing the "-g" flag to your compiler
>> > invocation will cause the compiler to generate debugging information.
>>
>> But you can use objcopy to create a debug file.
>> objcopy --only-keep-debug infile.exe outfile.dbg
>>
>> outfile.dbg can then be used by gdb.
>
> This is all true, but I think everyone is missing the point.  Wayne
> Gong's original complaint was that since windbg can only read the MS
> format of debug info (Codeview) it was unable to provide an accurate
> location of a fault, a common observation when using a debugger without
> debug info.  gcc cannot produce a format of debug information that
> windbg can use -- whether it's embedded in the object or placed in a
> separate file is totally irrelevant.
>

What's the purpose of  --enable-extra-pe-debug?

Earnie