And more (last one I think) Watcomm apparent support Codeview in their debug formats - and they are open sourcing watcomm C/C++ - see http://www.openwatcom.org/
Rob === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:36 PM Subject: Re: gdb trouble > And some more that caught my eye: > http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaultframe.asp?page=/msj/0399/hood/hood03 > 99.htm&nav=/msj/0399/newnav.htm > Is an article about .dbg file formats - not written my MS, and includdes > references to pdb. > It also has a handy file cvinfo.h which is the header required to > manipulate codeview 4 data. > > MSDN returns a hit on COFFTOCV.C which does what it says. > > http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2001/08/0106.html > based on the info from the above header! > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q121/3/66.asp > > These folk appear to be able to generate Codeview data (which is what is > in pdb files). > http://www.digitalmars.com/faq.html > and http://www.digitalmars.com/bibliography.html (see CV4) > > Wine has/had pdb partial support > http://www.winehq.com/News/1999-49.html > > http://www.tbcnet.com/~clive/vcomwinp.html > has a dumppe that understands codeview > > http://www.rdbooks.com/store/products/rd2364.htm is an old book - maybe > there is a newer version with CV4 info? > > http://www.wotsit.org/ > is a useful site on file formats - nothing there, but if you ask, maybe > they know where to find it. > > Codeview is also known as CV4 - a earch on that might help. > MSDN spat out this: > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q194/9/21.ASP > which has some partial info on the Codeview format. > > http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/GobugHelp/Symbolic.htm > isn't really helpful, butmay be of interest > > Lastly, MSDN CD roms do have the Specification (CV5.0 Symbolic Debug > Information) But I'm afraid to open it :]. Perhaps someone you know can > create a clean room spec for you. > > Rob > > === > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:46 PM > Subject: Re: gdb trouble > > > > 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" <[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/ > > > > > > -- 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/
