Re: [Tinycc-devel] Windows debugger which understands tcc generated debug symbols?

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Jeremy Kvurr wrote:

> Hello. I know about the existance of the -g option in the tcc, but I don't
> know how to enable a source-level debugging using this debug info. I tried
> to run the tcc-generated program with winedbg, but he hasn't recognised the
> symbols it seems. And I want to know where this debugging info is placed in
> the exe, and what format does it use.

It uses the stabs debugging format.  But only a very restricted subset, 
namely only line information (i.e. filenames, include hierarchy, function 
names, source line numbers).  The info is in the .stab and .stabstr 
sections.  gdb is able to interpret this debug format, I don't know other 
windows debuggers.


Ciao,
Michael.