Format of .dbg and .pdb symbol files

WINDBG
1

Does anyone know the format of windbg symbol files, such like .dbg, .pdb files ?

I want to resolve some information from these files ?

Thanks!

Matt
http://web.nyist.net/~sysinternals

2

You can search on the web and see what you can find, but you will not
find much. Some keywords to look for are CodeView and COFF.

CodeView is not publicly documented. Your best bet to access
information in the symbols is to use a tool like the debugger. Or
alternatively to use the APIs exported by DbgHelp.dll (or DbgEng.dll).
That way you don’t have to learn the actual file format, but can still
build a tool which does something.

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Does anyone know the format of windbg symbol files, such like .dbg, .pdb
files ?

I want to resolve some information from these files ?

Thanks!

Matt
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3

If I recall correctly, the following book has some (reverse-engineered)
information about .pdb files:

Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets: A Programmer’s Cookbook
Sven B. Schreiber
Addison Wesley

See http://www.orgon.com/w2k_internals/index.html

I liked the info in the book, but I found the style of writing very
tedious… But that’s just my opinion.

Gert-Jan Bartelds

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Wu [mailto:mattwu@163.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:00 AM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] Format of .dbg and .pdb symbol files

Does anyone know the format of windbg symbol files, such like
.dbg, .pdb files ?

I want to resolve some information from these files ?

Thanks!

Matt
http://web.nyist.net/~sysinternals

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