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Program database (PDB) is a file format (developed by Microsoft) for storing debugging information about a program (or, commonly, program modules such as a DLL or EXE).PDB files commonly have a .pdb extension.
A debug symbol is a special kind of symbol that attaches additional information to the symbol table of an object file, such as a shared library or an executable. This information allows a symbolic debugger to gain access to information from the source code of the binary, such as the names of identifiers, including variables and routines.
The SymChk.exe utility can be used to verify symbols and to build a local symbol cache in a convenient, supposedly non-invasive way. This utility is included with the Debugging Tools for Windows. Visual Studio 2005 and later can be set up to use the Microsoft Symbol Server. [1] The symbol server technology is built into Debugging Tools for Windows.
The LIB file (import library) is used to link against a DLL at compile-time; it is not necessary for run-time linking. Unless the DLL is a Component Object Model (COM) server, the DLL file must be placed in one of the directories listed in the PATH environment variable, in the default system directory, or in the same directory as the program ...
With Version 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), most of the C/C++ runtime was moved into a new DLL, UCRTBASE.DLL, which conforms closely with C99. Universal C Run Time ( UCRT ) from Windows 10 onwards become a component part of Windows [2] , so every compiler (either non MS, like GCC or Clang / LLVM ) can link against UCRT [3] .
An object file is a file that contains machine code or bytecode, as well as other data and metadata, generated by a compiler or assembler from source code during the compilation or assembly process. The machine code that is generated is known as object code .
Using weak symbols in static libraries has other semantics than in shared ones, i.e. with a static library the symbol lookup stops at the first symbol – even if it is just weak and an object file with a strong symbol is also included in the library archive. On Linux, the linker option --whole-archive changes that behavior. [10]
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