GCC C Compiler producing Microsoft debug format?

[Jim Wilson]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:01, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
> My other option was to write some extensions to gcc
> code which could produce PDB file format naturally. If
> you could give me some pointers on that, i would
> appreciate it.

Since I don't have any info on the PDB format, I can't really say
anything useful about this.

I can say that getting useful debug info is a significant amount of
work.  If the MS PDB format is very close to an existing supported
format, then it shouldn't be much work to write a converter, or to add
PDB support to the existing gcc debug info generator.  However, if it
really is a different format, then this will be a lot of work.

There is also the potential problem of supporting a MS format which
probably changes with each compiler release.  If MS provides public
documentation for the format, then it may be feasible.  If MS does not
provide documentation, and views this as a proprietary interface, then
it may not be feasible to support it.

Jim