I need to find the mode EXE/DLL was build looking at its headers. (Using C++ only without any external tools) There is an old discussion on how to determine if DLL was built in Release or Debug mod...

While trying to use the !heap extension in Windbg for investigating a dump, I get following error: 0:000> !heap -s -v -a SEGMENT HEAP ERROR: failed to initialize the extention This happens for ...

So I'm really struggling to figure this out. I have a solution with a few projects, say, A, B, and C. A references and uses B and C (both project references). I wanted to create a Nuget package fr...

I am interested in creating an external symbol file which I reference from my ELF file using objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=.... Now I know how to extract only the debug symbols (objcopy --only-keep-...

Is it possible, given a java.lang.Class object, to get the source file name and the line number at which the class was declared? The data should be available in the .class file's debug info. The ...

My Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET webform application has 3 DLL assemblies. When debugging, DLLs and PDBs are created in the same Temporary ASP.NET Files directory for only two of the three DLLs (the P...

It seems that Preprocessor Directives (#if DEBUG) and ASP.NET Core Environment Name (IHostingEnvironment.EnvironmentName) both could be used when you want to have different behavior in debug/develo...

How do you strip symbols from an Android .so native code library? I have a .so built that has thousands of symbols clearly visible in a hex editor. IDA Pro automatically disassembles with proper s...

I've built my binary with: go build -gcflags "$gc_flags" -o ./bin/grafana-server ./pkg/cmd/grafana-server, where $gc_flags is '-N -l'. When I run this file, ./bin/grafana-server, and attach to it ...

I have a folder on my server that hosts my nuget packages. These packages do not contain source code or symbols (PDBs). This works well. Recently I have set up another folder on my local server to...

Here is my main cmake file: project( reconstructor ) cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1) set(CMAKE_SUPPRESS_REGENERATION true) include(ExternalProject) set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIR c:/boost_1_66_0) set(...

The debug point is not getting enabled when this module gets loaded. So I thought of manually loading its debug symbols .pdb file from "Debug/obj" folder. In this case I am getting below error "A ...

I don't even care if they are true "debug" versions, all I really want are the symbol files so that my callstack isn't rendered invalid when I break into the debugger.

Here's what I've tried: Made a new Console App (.NET Framework) in Visual Studio 2017. Added the following code: static void Main(string[] args) { new Dictionary<int, int>().TryGetValue(3...

I used to build our dynamic frameworks for internal development using xcodebuild -workspace <workspace_path> build -configuration "Release" now that we are shipping frameworks to 3rd party...

I am trying to port my Windows Phone 8 app to Windows 10. I am able to build my app. When I try to deploy my app in Release x86 on a Mobile emulator, it fails & gives the following msg: Symb...

I noticed that running strip -S -x (remove all debug and all local symbols) on the binaries in my app's 'Frameworks' folder makes them ~25% smaller, even when I have enabled stripping of debug symb...

I have a VB6 project and have enabled it to generate pdb files (this shows how to do that). However I can't debug with them and when I check them with symcheck I get this output: >SYMCHK: MyFil...

I have some compiled libraries i.e. shared library (*.so) on x86 Linux and I want to quickly determine whether they were compiled with debugging symbols (i.e with -g/debug option) or not. How to ch...

I've just started playing with Xcode 4, and found that, no matter how I setup debugging symbols in the project, Instruments refuses to display source lines for stack trace items that correspond to ...

Suppose I am having this code: int main() { int var1; char *ptr = malloc(5 * sizeof(char)); //........... do_something(); //........... return 0; } We know that the actual memory lay...

My OS is Arch Linux, and the test.c program is very simple: # cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello world!\n"); } Compile it without -g option, and use file comma...

When compiling with -fsanitize=memory I get WARNING: Trying to symbolize code, but external symbolizer is not initialized! when running the program. How do I initialize the external symbolizer?

How to know the name and/or path of the debug symbol file which is linked to a binary executable? Suppose you did like this: objcopy --only-keep-debug foo foo.dbg objcopy --strip-debug foo objcop...

I am experimenting an analysis tool that can analyze executable files with embedded debug symbol information in Windows. While trying this tool on several open source projects, I realize that most ...