Questions tagged [debugging-symbols]
Extra information added to help for debugging purpose. It gathers information about each variable, type, procedure, etc, and link the assembly code to source code. Usual debugging-symbols formats includes DWARF, stabs, PDB ...
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Are those code snippets and file paths in a C++ binary some sort of standard debug information?
This C++ binary has code snippets and paths to sourcecode files everywhere, which is probably some sort of debug info.
Is this something standard? (Is this RTTI)
If so, how is this called?
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How do I see the parameters passed to RegOpenKeyEx, and set a conditional breakpoint?
I have WinDbg attached to a process I don't have the source code for. I've set a breakpoint with bm ADVAPI32!_RegOpenKeyExW@20. The output of dv is:
Unable to enumerate locals, HRESULT 0x80004005
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How to configure IDA to load .pdb files from Microsoft public symbol server?
I've done this in one VM but I can't seem to replicate it in another. I'm using IDA to analyze a 32-bit Windows PE file. I then want to step thru it with a WinDbg debugger from within IDA.
So when I ...
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GHIDRA: How to load symbols from a text (map) file
I'm having trouble loading symbols for a very old Delphi-7 EXE. I posted a separate question regarding loading the DBG file symbols. Another approach would be to convert the debug symbols (available ...
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Is it possible to download program database (PDB) files of Microsoft Windows binaries without installing any software?
I want to download the .pdb files of Windows binaries (e.g., notpad.exe) on machines where the user doesn't have admin rights, nor has any debugger available. I was wondering if it is possible to ...
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How to extract debug information from a DOS executable compiled with Watcom C/C++?
I have a DOS executable which has been compiled with Watcom C/C++ 10.0.
That EXE has debug symbols inside. I was wondering if there is any tool that allow to dump or extract that debug information (...
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IDA 7.0 (free) fails to load symbols with message "DWARF: Cannot determine location of DWARF info" during debugging
Here's the steps to repro. Just installed IDA (free) v.7.0 on a brand-new installation of Windows 10 (x64) in a VM:
Then loaded a test PE file and started debugging it (using Local Windows Debugger):
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How are members of a Structure Type positioned on the stack?
Some of the structure types have members that are not stacked next to each other. Check out the structure type at 0x33E6 in bzip2_base (x86-64) here. There's an int at location offset 0, a char at 4 ...
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Need Help Cracking a Program
So I've got this .exe that I want to crack. It's an old management system for people in truck loading business.
I kind of understand what's happening with window API calls but I'm unable to access the ...
