> > Unless someone knows a trick that I'm not aware of > debugging Win32 crash dumps (DrWatson .dmp files) can > be a real pain unless you have symbols because > Frame Pointer Omission records make it hard to > construct the call stack from a dump. Having symbols > that match the binary build handy when you examine > the dump avoids this problem. > > Does anyone have a reason we shouldn't build .pdb > files for Release builds (we already do it for Debug > builds). This only increases the size of the DLL by > a few bytes and has negligible impact on performance. > > The plan would be to update the Release build for > every .dsp in Apache.dsw: > > - in compiler settings generate "Program Database" Debug > Info (/Zi) > > - in the Linker Debug settings generate "Microsoft Format" > debug Info (/debug) > > The other thing we would need to do would be to save > away the .pdb files when the binary install package is > built (I don't think we'd want to package them in the > install image since the files are quite large). > > Allan Edwards >
Sounds like a really good idea to me. Bill
