2010年10月10日 · Program Debug Database file (pdb) is a file format by Microsoft for storing debugging information. When you build a project using Visual Studio or command prompt the compiler creates these symbol files. Check Microsoft Docs

2019年2月5日 · It is an excellent and feature rich PDB dumper and great to complement Microsoft's cvdump. For details and documentation, see: LLVM on Windows now supports PDB Debug Info (LLVM Project Blog) llvm-pdbutil - PDB File forensics and diagnostics (LLVM Homepage) Some useful commands for getting started: llvm-pdbutil dump -all your.pdb

2023年3月20日 · A PDB file is created when you compile a C/C++ program with /ZI or /Zi or a Visual Basic/C#/JScript .NET program with /debug. Each time it creates an OBJ file, the C/C++ compiler merges debug information into VCx0.PBD. The inserted information includes type information but does not include symbol information such as function definitions.

2010年4月15日 · This means that if you put the PDB that was compiled with the assembly in the same directory as the assembly, your exception stack traces will have the names and lines of the positions in the original source files. Without the PDB file, you will only see the name of the class and method for each level of the stack trace.

2024年11月9日 · It's the file Visual Studio needs to be able to debug your application. This MSDN page has more information. A program database (PDB) file holds debugging and project state information that allows incremental linking of a Debug configuration of your program.

2010年8月28日 · To be able to properly debug, you need the symbols which are maintained in the PDB file. PDB can also be kept for release builds. The reason it is recommended to keep PDBs is so that entire projects need not be rebuilt once again which is actually a multi day process typically on a build server. In very large projects this could be very cumbersome.

2011年3月2日 · The .PDB files are generated by the linker and it is related with the target executable or the DLL. This file contains the complete debug info. When we are debugging, we need this ‘.pdb’ file for aligning to the symbols. The timestamp of …

2019年2月15日 · A Program Database (.pdb) file, also called a symbol file, maps the identifiers that you create in source files for classes, methods, and other code to the identifiers that are used in the compiled executables of your project. The file also maps the statements in the source code to the execution instructions in the executables.

2016年5月20日 · The easiest way to use the PDB file is to let Visual Studio do the heavy lifting - either launch your program with Visual Studio's "Debug" command (F5 by default), or run the program and use the "Attach to Process" item in Visual Studio's Debug menu.

2012年5月10日 · Visual Studio 2010 "Cannot find or open the PDB file" 0. Regarding PDB usage. 2.