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File format for debugging information

Program database (PDB) is a file format for storing debugging information about a program. PDB files commonly have a .pdb extension. A PDB file is typically created from source files during compilation. 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. This symbol information is not stored in the module itself, because it takes up a lot of space. Wikipedia →

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  2. Skim a recent paper: Development of the Food Label Information Program: A Comprehensive Canadian Branded Food Composition DatabaseInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Interactive Computing SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programsCited 61,569 times
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  1. Applications
  2. Extracting information
  3. Multiple stream format
  4. File size
  5. Portable PDB

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