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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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/