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Can any of these decompilers make effective use of a Microsoft PDB file, if I have one, to include original symbols in the decompiled output? What I'd really like to do with a decompiler is feed it a final compiled EXE or DLL of my own code and see what it looks like after it's been run through whole-program optimization. In that case, of course, I have a PDB file.




IDA does.


Binary Ninja can as well (sorry for the delay, been on vacation this week) though none of the tools will download and use PDBs that might be available via public servers or otherwise by default in the configuration we're using on dogbolt. It would potentially be possible but our goal isn't to provide a test of all tools in all possible configurations as much as it is to get a good overview. Once you start tweaking each tool differently you're better off running that sort of analysis locally.




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