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

[Ehsan Akhgari]

AFAIK Wine's implementation of dbghelp.dll includes code for reading PDB
files.

Cheers,
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Ehsan
<http://ehsanakhgari.org/>


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Sandeep Patel <deeppatel1987 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> > Director of S/W Development
> > Arxan Technologies, Inc.
> > 1305 Cumberland Ave, Ste 215
> > West Lafayette, IN 47906
> > jabbey at arxan.com
> > www.arxan.com
> >
> > 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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