From: jazz@softway.com (Jason Zions) Subject: Re: GNU debugger 3 Dec 1997 18:56:48 -0800 Message-ID: <34858CCE.657022E8.cygnus.gnu-win32@opennt.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stan Shebs Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > GDB can read the files, but not the MS-specific debug information. > Some MS compilers can generate standard COFF debug info, but that > only works for C, not C++. > > > If not, do you plan to make GDB-WIN32 compatible with > > MS compiler? > > At present, we don't know of anyone working on this addition. It would be > very desirable however. We looked at it for a while; there are parts of the MS debug information that are either undocumented or incorrectly documented, and the whole thing turned into a larger mess than was worth it to us. Jason Zions Softway Systems Makers of OpenNT, POSIX for NT - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".