gdb trouble

[vipin aravind]

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.
vipin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: gdb trouble


> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:43:22AM -0800, Katherina O'Connor wrote:
> > ... ".pch" is a suffix for "pre-compiled" header
> > files, a feature which is optionally, having
> > nothing to do with debug. MSVC can generate debug
>
> Sorry, I meant the .pdb files or whatever the extension is.  The
> format of these files is nowhere documented.
>
> > information either in a MS format or COFF. Not
> > "understanding" COFF is a problem of gdb
> > and not of MSVC.
>
> gdb understands coff but isn't that only generated by VC when
> giving some special option?  I don't have VC installed anywhere.
>
> Corinna
>
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