Is it possible to load mismatched symbols in Visual Studio?

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Morinar picture Morinar · Sep 7, 2010 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I've got a Windows minidump (C code) and a corresponding exe file. Unfortunately, I don't have the exact matching .pdb files, but I do have .pdbs that contain the exact same code just built at a different time. In Windbg, I can use:

.symopt+0x40

To tell it to load anything, even mismatched symbol files. This works great in this particular instance, and I'm able to get a proper call stack. I'm just curious as to whether or not Visual Studio has any such feature. We use pretty much every different version of VS here, so it doesn't matter which version it might be in. Thanks.

Answer

Sanketh I picture Sanketh I · Sep 23, 2010

Try this utility:

ChkMatch utility can be used to check whether an executable and debug information file match. It can also be used to enforce matching between an executable and debug information file, if they are compatible.

For more information about debug information matching and related issues, see this article.

Supported debug information formats: DBG, PDB 2.0, PDB 7.0...

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