Re: How to tell gdb about dlls using remote protocol

Robert Dewar
2007-02-02T06:20:07Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> Except it's pretty standard to compile without a frame pointer on
> Windows, from what I've encountered - and more importantly, all of the
> Microsoft DLLs seem to do so. I still think we need to come up with
> some way to take advantage of the MS symbol info, though it's not a
> small project (so I haven't really tried to do it).

True, but it is relatively unlikely to be interesting to debug through
Microsoft DLL's, much more likely and useful to debug through user
written DLL's, and people can learn that if they want to debug such
DLL's they should not suppress the frame pointer.

I agree it would be nice to take advantage of the MS symbol info if
this is possible (technically and legally), but as you say it is a
big project, and we should not let best be the enemy of better.