[PATCH] D27769: Update MSVC compat docs about debug info.
Nico Weber via Phabricator via cfe-commits
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Wed Dec 14 13:07:40 PST 2016
thakis 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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rnk wrote:
> 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"?
Dunno, that was already here, I just kept it. Do they all use the DIA SDK? I thought one of them didn't (but I could be making that up)
https://reviews.llvm.org/D27769
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