Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] 0.8.16 crashing on Win2k

["Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Would it be better to supply executables with embedded debug information,
> thus requiring the distribution of two types of executables (debug and
> non-debug),
> or to provide the *.pdb files as a separate download so that those that
> need to debug or provide stack back-traces with symbols can have
> the symbols
> readily available?
>
> I ask since I'm not familiar with normal Windows practices. I would think
> a separate PDB download would be nicer, but will Dr. Watson use it,
> as in this case, to show symbols?
>
> --gilbert
>

AFAIK, a PDB executable isn't much bigger (1K or so) over a straight
executable.  If the pdb files are available then Dr Watson (or other
debuggers e.g. Dev Studio) will use them.  The linker encodes the path to
the pdb file in the executable for the debugger to locate.

Graham