Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <00e901c17273$ca2bd400$b90806c0@vipin> Reply-To: "vipin aravind" From: "vipin aravind" To: "Robert Collins" , "Corinna Vinschen" References: <1006263602006315@firemail.de> <20011120150524.S14154@cygbert.vinschen.de> <00b201c17247$3d29d240$b90806c0@vipin> <20011121102910.F21630@cygbert.vinschen.de> <003b01c17271$6ee225b0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> Subject: Re: gdb trouble Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:33:37 +0530 Organization: Wipro Technologies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 --------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit well I read in an msdn article that the pdb format is not publicly documented. probably numega got in some sort of agreement with microsoft on providing the info. vipin > Some related articles: > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/0/43.ASP > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwbgen > /html/msdn_peeringpe.asp > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/d > bghelp_0l0n.asp?frame=true > > To me it looks like there are 2 options. > 1) add the user of the symbol handling library to gdb. That should allow > pdb use. > 2) Using the symbol handling library, and (say) VC++, generate test > exe's with .pdb and reverse engineer the format. Once done, use the > resulting library in gdb. > > Rob > > > === > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Corinna Vinschen" > To: "cygwin" > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: gdb trouble > > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:14:43AM +0530, vipin aravind wrote: > > > I had been using softice debugger on windows which is from > > > mega( and it understands pdb format) and how do they know > the > > > format? > > > I think it would be documented. > > > > Sure. Somewhere. Under NDA, I assume. > > > > Corinna > > > > -- > > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin > to > > Cygwin Developer > mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com > > Red Hat, Inc. > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > --------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary Content-Type: text/plain; name="Wipro_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Wipro_Disclaimer.txt" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information transmitted by this E-MAIL is proprietary to Wipro and/or its Customers and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please notify us immediately at mailto:mailadmin@wipro.com and delete this mail from your records. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary--