You could embed names, function argument names and locals in an executable as well on Windows until ... probably VS2003 or so. Here's the documentation for it i

You could embed names, function argument names and locals in an executable as well on Windows until ... probably VS2003 or so. Here's the documentation for it in VS 6.0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-6.0/aa278576(v=vs.60) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualst... /Z7 and /Zd result in an exe/dll with no seperate pdb. You could however split it into exe/dll + .dbg.