Good morning Scott
First of all, as New Year is coming, I wish you good luck and great success
in the coming New Year! :-)
I agree that the term "PDB Documentation" is confusing. I gathered the
information that the PDB format is undocumented and strictly proprietary.
There was a Microsoft KB article "Q182043: Program Database File (PDB)
Format Information" that mentioned the point, but the article is not
available in the internet now. I personally feels that the term "PDB
Documentation" might be referring to some books out there that are not
endorsed by Microsoft but that attempt to document the format. For example,
http://undocumented.rawol.com/, or it might be a VSIP program that's for
analyzation of the PDB file.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx2008/products/bb964516.aspx. I have sent
an email to the product group to ask for their comments on this term. I
will be back as soon as possible.
Here are some additional materials that may be useful:
Improved Error Reporting with DBGHELP 5.1 APIs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301692.aspx
(In the section Drilling into the New Symbol and Type Information, it gives
more information about the fields in SYMBOL_INFO. For example, SYMBOL_INFO
has a TypeIndex field from which information about the symbol's type can be
learned. For instance, if a symbol represents a structure, it's possible to
enumerate the members of structure and classes, as well as get their types,
sizes, and offsets within the structure.")
Debug Interface Access SDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x93ctkx8.aspx
(We have no documentation on PDB, and customers need to use the DIA SDK API
instead)
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