TypeInfo and bloated exes - is MingGW toolchain the answer?

[Jascha Wetzel]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> It also only says you can't *build* objects with COFF debug info, but it
> doesn't say whether MS tool still support *debugging* programs with
> embedded COFF debug info.

Support for debugging embedded debug symbols is kind of broken in new MS
debuggers. It's like they crippled that support while updating the
software. The debugger reads the symbols and you can see them, but it
doesn't find the source line corresponding to an address, so you can't
use it.

But isn't this about the linker, anyway? As long as the linker copies
embedded debug symbols from COFF files correctly to the executable,
there shouldn't be a problem.