GNU debugger

[Stan Shebs]

smith@sunserv.kfki.hu (Kovacs Jozsef) writes:

>  I'd like to know whether the GNU debugger works with
>  Microsoft Compiled COFF object file format.
> 
>  I tried and it didn't work. It was my fault or GDB
>  really can't debug a program which was compiled by
>  MS compiler.

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.

							Stan Shebs
							Cygnus Solutions
							shebs@cygnus.com
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