[PATCH] D27769: Update MSVC compat docs about debug info.

Reid Kleckner via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Dec 14 13:04:07 PST 2016


rnk added inline comments.


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Comment at: docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst:77
+  debug information if ``/Z7`` or ``/Zi`` is passed. Microsoft's link.exe will
+  transform the CodeView debug information into a PDB that works in modern
+  Windows debuggers and tools like ETW.  Work to teach lld about CodeView and
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Are these debuggers modern or are they just debuggers provided by Microsoft? It could be interpreted as a knock against gdb. Maybe we should say: "Windows debuggers that use the Microsoft DIA SDK, such as the Visual Studio debugger"?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D27769





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