What is a PDB file for?
PDB files: What every developer must know
Example of PDB scenario:
What is a PDB file?
Most developers should know that PDB files are used to help with software debugging. But how exactly does he work, we may not be familiar with. This article describes the storage and contents of PDB files. It also describes how the debugger finds the PDB file corresponding to binay and how the debugger finds the source code file corresponding to binay. This article is for all Native and Managed developers.
Before we begin, let's define two terms: private build, which is used to denote a build generated on the developer's own machine; public build, which means a build generated on a public build machine. private build is relatively simple, because PDB and binay are in the same place, and usually the problems we have are about public build.
The most important thing that all developers need to know is that "PDB files are just as important as source code", without which you can't even debug. For public build, the symbol server needs to store all the PDBs, and then when the user reports an error, the debugger can automatically find the corresponding PDB file in binay, and both Visual Studio and Windbg know how to access the symbol server. Before storing PDB and binay to the symbol server, you also need to source index the PDB run, which is to associate PDB and source.
The next part assumes that the Symbol Server and Source Server Indexing are already set up. TFS2010 can be done as simply as source indexing and symbol server copying for a new build.
2. The content of the PDB file
Officially starting the content of PDB, PDB is not a publicly available file format, but Microsoft provides an API to help get data from PDB.
The Native C++ PDB contains the following information:
* public, private and static function addresses;
* The name and address of the global variable;
* Parameter and local variable names and offsets on the stack;
* typedefinitions of class, structure and data;
* Frame Pointer Omission data for traversing the native stack on x86;
* The name and number of lines in the source code file;
The .NET PDB contains only 2 parts of information:
* Source code file name and number of lines;
* and the name of the local variable;
* All other data is already included in the . NET Metadata;
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