The Old New Thing

Restoring symbols to a stack trace originally generated without symbols

November 15, 2013 Nov 15, 2013 11/15/13

Raymond Chen

Has this ever happened to you? Ugh. A stack trace taken without working symbols. (There's no way that is a deeply recursive 60KB function. Just by casual inspection, you know that the symbols are wrong.) To see how to fix this, you just have to understand what the debugger does when it has no symbols to work from: It uses the symbols ...