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2 The Module Information Stream
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13 The Module Info Stream (henceforth referred to as the Modi stream) contains
14 information about a single module (object file, import library, etc that
15 contributes to the binary this PDB contains debug information about. There
16 is one modi stream for each module, and the mapping between modi stream index
17 and module is contained in the :doc:`DBI Stream <DbiStream>`. The modi stream
18 for a single module contains line information for the compiland, as well as
19 all CodeView information for the symbols defined in the compiland. Finally,
20 there is a "global refs" substream which is not well understood.
22 .. _modi_stream_layout:
27 A modi stream is laid out as follows:
34 uint8_t Symbols[SymbolSize-4];
35 uint8_t C11LineInfo[C11Size];
36 uint8_t C13LineInfo[C13Size];
38 uint32_t GlobalRefsSize;
39 uint8_t GlobalRefs[GlobalRefsSize];
42 - **Signature** - Unknown. In practice only the value of ``4`` has been
43 observed. It is hypothesized that this value corresponds to the set of
44 ``CV_SIGNATURE_xx`` defines in ``cvinfo.h``, with the value of ``4``
45 meaning that this module has C13 line information (as opposed to C11 line
46 information). A corollary of this is that we expect to only ever see
47 C13 line info, and that we do not understand the format of C11 line info.
49 - **Symbols** - The :ref:`CodeView Symbol Substream <modi_symbol_substream>`.
50 ``SymbolSize`` is equal to the value of ``SymByteSize`` for the
51 corresponding module's entry in the :ref:`Module Info Substream
52 <dbi_mod_info_substream>` of the :doc:`DBI Stream <DbiStream>`.
54 - **C11LineInfo** - A block containing CodeView line information in C11
55 format. ``C11Size`` is equal to the value of ``C11ByteSize`` from the
56 :ref:`Module Info Substream <dbi_mod_info_substream>` of the
57 :doc:`DBI Stream <DbiStream>`. If this value is ``0``, then C11 line
58 information is not present. As mentioned previously, the format of
59 C11 line info is not understood and we assume all line in modern PDBs
62 - **C13LineInfo** - A block containing CodeView line information in C13
63 format. ``C13Size`` is equal to the value of ``C13ByteSize`` from the
64 :ref:`Module Info Substream <dbi_mod_info_substream>` of the
65 :doc:`DBI Stream <DbiStream>`. If this value is ``0``, then C13 line
66 information is not present.
68 - **GlobalRefs** - The meaning of this substream is not understood.
70 .. _modi_symbol_substream:
72 The CodeView Symbol Substream
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75 The CodeView Symbol Substream. This is an array of variable length
76 records describing the functions, variables, inlining information,
77 and other symbols defined in the compiland. The entire array consumes
78 ``SymbolSize-4`` bytes. The format of a CodeView Symbol Record (and
79 thusly, an array of CodeView Symbol Records) is described in
80 :doc:`CodeViewSymbols`.