How does a debug build make reverse engineering easy?

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Published on 2010-12-07T09:56:49Z Indexed on 2011/01/16 1:53 UTC
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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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