Hello.

I would appreciate if somebody could assist me with an error message I
am getting from the Microsoft WinDbg 6.3 debugging tool. I am not
familiar with it, since I have just downloaded it. However, I did check
the compiler (cl.exe) and linker (link.exe) documentation for the
options I should use in order to get debugging information to be
generated. The test program consists of a single .cpp file. Here are the
command lines I used for compiling and linking:

cl /Zi /c /nologo /EHs teste.cpp

and

link /debug /nologo /subsystem:console /out:teste.exe teste.obj

The compilation process resulted in the creation of a vc70.pdb file. The
linker, on its turn, generated one called teste.pdb. Ok, next I started
the debugger and set the symbols path from the /file/ menu. Then I chose
to /open executable/ and selected /teste.exe/. Here is the output shown
on the console:

*** Beginning of output ***

CommandLine: D:\Temp\teste\teste.exe
Symbol search path is: D:\Temp\teste
Executable search path is:
ModLoad: 00400000 00429000   teste.exe
ModLoad: 7c900000 7c9b0000   ntdll.dll
ModLoad: 7c800000 7c8f4000   C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
(7f8.360): Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance)
eax=00241eb4 ebx=7ffde000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000001 esi=00241f48
edi=00241eb4
eip=7c901230 esp=0012fb20 ebp=0012fc94 iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz na
pe nc
cs=001b  ss=0023  ds=0023  es=0023  fs=003b  gs=0000
efl=00000202
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols
for ntdll.dll -
ntdll!DbgBreakPoint:
7c901230 cc               int     3

*** End of output ***

Notice the ERROR saying that the symbol file could not be found. What
symbol file is it talking about? I don't think it is my program's symbol
file, because if I don't set the symbols path in advance, other "can't
find symbol file" messages come up. Is it referring to Windows'
libraries' symbols? Any clue? Sorry, but I am kind of new at this.

Thank you very much,