Re: Cross platform Assembly for use with C project

From: Michael Brown (spamtrap_at_crayne.org)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:31:09 +0000 (UTC)

Frank Kotler wrote:
[...]
> "Fix the assembler so it does what you want" probably wasn't the
> answer you were looking for, but it might be your best option. I'm
> surprised no one has done it - it's a fairly common complaint. I
> assume the format of the symbolic info is known, or can be
> discovered.

Visual Studio requires a PDB file for debugging. Unfortunately, noone has
managed to get MS to give out any information on this format, except that it
was originally (at the time of Visual Studio 1.0) derived from CodeView. It
doesn't help that the format changes with each version of VS either ...

Some people (such as the Wine developers) have had some limited success in
reverse engineering the format to extract information, but I'm unaware of
anyone who has actually managed to generate a valid PDB file of any version.

[...] 

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