The main point of a crash reporter tool like Google breakpad is to generate core dump or minidump files from stripped binaries to process later with debugging symbols. normally these binaries are r...

I am following the guide below: Debugging kernel and modules via gdb When I try to load the module symbols using the command below: (gdb) lx-symbols gdb says that the command is undefined. How do I...

I am trying to generate a dSYM file for my Release configuration. In my CMake config, I have: if (CMAKE_GENERATOR STREQUAL "Xcode") # generate debug symbols in a .dsym file for release mode se...

I've got a conditional compilation symbol I'm using called "RELEASE", that I indicated in my project's properties in Visual Studio. I want some particular CSS to be applied to elements when the REL...

When performing an archive build with "strip debug symbols during copy" set to YES, I get the warning "skipping copy phase strip, binary is code signed". The generally suggested solution on thread...

Firstly, I should state that my current development environment is MSYS + mingw-w64 + ActivePython under Windows 7 and that on a normal day I am primarily a Linux developer. I am having no joy obta...

I've read numerous threads on stackoverflow and on apple site and I still cannot get basics to work. I make a debug build of my app, I install it on my phone, this build intentionally crashes. I ru...

In a team project I'm working on, setting a breakpoint in a file (say IdeasController.cs) will lead to erratic debugger behaviour if there's another file with the same name in the solution. I've re...

I am trying to publish an Android application to Google Play and getting a warning: This App Bundle contains native code, and you've not uploaded debug symbols. We recommend you upload a symbol fi...

I need to write some license checking code in Swift. I know Swift is not optimal for that kind of code in the first place, as it is harder to obfuscate. But if the code that needs to know whether t...

I'm running Rust utilities that compiled with debug symbols. cargo build # without the "--release" flag These are really slow compared to the same utilities written in C. Is it possibl...

Is it possible to create a mono mdb from a .net pdb? Or do I need to build the binary with two compilers?

I want to hide machine specific path part from executable. Is it possible to force relative path for PDB symbols and __FILE__ macro? So that some/all initial parts of path are not put into file? I ...

In response to Employed Russian's answer I verified that I do have debug packages that should provide debug info sufficient to call functions such as floor from the gdb command-line, but something ...

My goal is: Given a suspended thread in a Delphi-compiled 32 or 64-bit Windows program, to walk the stack (doable) Given stack entries, to enumerate the local variables in each method and their v...

The problem I'm trying to debug native (c++) code that is called from Java code (MainActivity.OnCreate) in simple android application. I'm using lldb for debugging and build the native code using c...

I am using Debugging Tools for Windows and I get the following error message when starting WinDbg / cdb or ntsd: Symbol search path is: *** Invalid *** ********************************************...

I'm currently toying around with a simple LLVM frontend written in Rust. I'm now trying to emit debug information. How can I emit this debug information (source locations and variables) through t...

I see lots of questions and answers for this issue in Visual Studio, but no answers for VS Code. It's really annoying to see about a hundred of these messages in between my WriteLines. Is there a ...

I started writing a debugger in C#, to debug any process on my operating system. For now, it only can handle breakpoints (HW, SW, and Memory), but now I wanted to show the opcode of the process. M...

Why does Visual Studio 2005 generate the .pdb files when compiling in release? I won't be debugging a release build, so why are they generated?

Which is better to use, and why, on a large project: #if DEBUG public void SetPrivateValue(int value) { ... } #endif or [System.Diagnostics.Conditional("DEBUG")] public void SetPrivateValue(i...

There are several documented ways on internet on how to use Symbols Source files and Source Link to debug inside a Nuget Package but it's honestly hard to understand what is the good way for me. W...

This is a complicated one since depends on Boost version and platform too. I'm using boost stacktrace to print backtrace where some assertions fail. There are some external compile-time and run-ti...

The operands for an llvm::User (e.g. instruction) are llvm::Values. After the mem2reg pass, variables are in SSA form, and their names as corresponding to the original source code are lost. Value:...