[cfe-dev] GSoC 2012 project idea: PDB format support.

[Sandeep Patel]

It looks like the format is pretty well described at
http://ccimetadata.codeplex.com

deep

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Joe Abbey <jabbey at arxan.com> wrote:
> The PDB file format is historically undocumented.  We've been trying to get
> a copy of the spec for years, and have even held several calls with MSFT
> compiler teams and they've been unwilling to provide documentation.  I'm
> thinking this alone is a blocker to complete any forward progress on this
> effort.
>
> The DIA SDK does provide PDB reading capabilities, but no emission.  While I
> agree that it would be extraordinarily cool to have, unless you want to
> reverse engineer the proprietary format, I'm afraid it's a dead-end.
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Abbey
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> Arxan Technologies, Inc.
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> On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:43 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
>
> On 23 Mar 2012, at 17:42, Svyatoslav Kuzmich wrote:
>
> I would like to implement support of VIsual Studio debug info format (*.pdb)
> as part of Google SoC 2012.
>
> Is it suitable for Clang? Is there someone who want to mentor for this
> project?
>
>
> It certainly sounds interesting and worthwhile, but it would be a pretty
> huge project - I don't think you could expect to complete it in the 10 weeks
> of the GSoC.  Have you looked at the complexity of the existing debug info
> stuff in LLVM (this is more of an LLVM project than a clang one, since clang
> would emit the same debug info to the IR, it would just be translated
> differently into the final output) and do you have documentation for the pdb
> format?  For it to be a good project for the GSoC, you'd need to split it
> into a series of smaller steps and indicate how long you thought each one
> would take.
>
> Please don't take this as discouragement - better Windows support is
> definitely something that we'd like to see, and being able to use Clang and
> the Visual Studio debugger would make a lot of people I know happy...
>
> David
>
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