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Where does the debugger get the symbols?

April 26, 2017debugger Symbols

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Where does the debugger get the symbols?

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Most Windows debuggers work like this: • The folder containing the binary is searched for a matching PDB. • The debugger’s symbol search path is then searched. Most Windows debuggers (including Visual Studio) take their default search path from the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable.