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Name Microsoft Program Database
Version 2.00
Other names  
Identifiers PUID:  fmt/1078
Family  
Classification Database
Disclosure  
Description A Program Database File stores debugging information about a compiled executable, usually created at compile-time. It stores a list of all symbols in a module with their addresses and possibly the name of the file and the line on which the symbol was declared.
Orientation  
Byte order  
Related file formats None.
Technical Environment  
Released  
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by Microsoft Corporation
Supported by Microsoft Corporation
Source National Library of Scotland / National Library of Scotland
Source date 24 Jul 2017
Source description An implementation can be found here: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb/blob/master/PDB/msf/msf.cpp
Last updated 24 Jul 2017
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