How does a debug build make reverse engineering easy?
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Some answer here stated that debug info would make it easier to reverse engineer the software. When I use Visual C++ and distribute an executable with debugging information but without other files (.pdb), will it contain any interesting things?
I looked to the executable with a hex editor and found nothing like symbol names, for now I assume the .exe file just links to information in the .pdb files, right?
Do you know whether it contains
- variable names?
- function/member names?
- line numbers?
- anything interesting?
Thanks!
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