Re: Post-Mortem Debugging with .pdb files

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Ivan
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"sludgenz" <sludge1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> We are a small development shop working with a C and C++ source
> base.
> We've been having a great deal of problems getting our pdb files
> linking back to our source files when doing post-mortem debugging.
> I know this is possible because I've seen it done. At the moment we
> have our clients install Dr Watson and set it to generate a full dump
> file. When a crash is reported we take the dump file and put it in the
> same directory as our .pdb files and open the dump file with Visual
> Studio .NET. We then press play and we get a stack with all the
> function symbols but only disassembly windows when we try to go to one
> of our functions.
> Now in some of our over branches (some of which aren't very different)
> the .pdb files will actually link back to source files. If we use a hex
> editor to examine the difference between the .pdb files we can see that
> those which allow you to link back to source have all the paths to our
> .c and .cpp files whereas those that don't only have the paths to our
> .obj files.
> We've checked all the project settings for our .dll projects and cannot
> find any significant difference between those source base which produce
> source code linked .pdb files and those that don't.
> Anyone have any ideas?
>


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