On 3/24/25 9:51 PM, Tom Kacvinsky via Gcc wrote:
Hi,
I know that PDB support has been worked on in binutils. I thinkt
he missing piece is to get GCC to emit CodeView debug information that
binutils will turn into a PDBm (not sure if the work is complete in
binutils, either).
What's the status of this? I ask because our WIndows offering is
built with MSVC for C and C++, but a MinGW-w64 built GCC for Ada
compilation. Having GCC + binutils generate PDB information would enable
us to use Visual Studio for one stop debugging. As it is we have to use
gdb for Ada code (DWARF debug symbols) and Visual Studio C/C++ debugging
(because PDB), which is a pain.
gcc-15 will have a fair amount of CodeView support thanks to Mark
Harmstone. I don't offhand recall if any of the early work made it into
gcc-14 or not. I'm also not at all familiar with gaps in capabilities.
You could always reach out to Mark to get the most up-to-date status.
Jeff
