Visual Studio 2017 and PDB files

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Information from Microsoft about the PDB format. We'll try to keep this up to date. Just trying to help the CLANG/LLVM community get onto Windows.

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Visual Studio 2017 and PDB files #23

Open jonwil opened 7 years ago

jonwil commented 7 years ago

Does the new Visual Studio 2017 version (the one that just entered RC state) add anything new to the PDB format? Are there any plans to update this repository with any new information in the newer PDB files?

quiret commented 7 years ago

As I understand it you can just use the same headers provided here to interface with mspdbcore.dll Reimplementing the PDB file format is a good idea but why not use what is already provided?

Here is my example located at CodePlex https://pedebug.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/pdbgen.cpp

Pretty sure the new Visual Studio is going to be backwards compatible with VS2015 PDB files.