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> If you are on Windows then make sure you are using symbol servers. If you are not on Windows – I’m very sorry. I thought this was a particularly bizarre take
by jstanley 6y ago
> If you are on Windows then make sure you are using symbol servers. If you are not on Windows – I’m very sorry.
I thought this was a particularly bizarre take, given that in the very same post the author has lamented not having access to the source code of the program he is trying to debug.
You can keep your symbol servers, I'll take the source code please.
- wtallis 6y agoI think the point is that the stuff on the symbol servers corresponds to the binaries used in the wild by the people who first encounter these issues. On Linux, you might run into the problem of a distro shipping stripped binaries, which means having the source code doesn't help much in parsing a stack or profiler trace. Instead, you need to track down the debug info for the binaries as compiled and shipped by that particular distro. Even in the best case, that will be more work than Microsoft's single-source symbol server.