Both Wine and Valgrind have grown the ability to use
debug information from .pdb files created by Visual C++.
That support was first written to handle Visual C++ 6,
and may need some love to handle later versions of Visual C++.

This directory contains two simple test programs - crash.c and uninit.c -
which generate simple errors that should generate nice
symbolic stack dumps under wine and valgrind+wine, respectively.

The batch files vc6.bat, vc2003.bat, vc2005.bat, and vc2008.bat show
how those test programs were compiled with the four compilers.
The output of the compiler is stored in a directory named
after the test program, compiler, and compile options, e.g. crash-vc2003-Zi.
A directory with linux valgrind output, uninit-linux-g, is provided
for comparison.

Inside crash-* are plain and verbose logs of wine running the app.
Inside uninit-* are plain and verbose logs of valgrind+wine running the app.

Results:

$ grep main */wine.log | grep -v CRTStartup | uniq
crash-vc6-Zi/wine.log:  2 0x0040104f main+0xc(argc=1, argv=0x520d50) [..\crash.c:9] in crash (0x0032fe78)
crash-vc2003-Zi/wine.log:  2 0x0040105c main+0xc(argc=1, argv=0x520d50) [c:\users\dkegel\pdbdemo\crash.c:9] in crash (0x0032fddc)
crash-vc2005-Zi/wine.log:  2 0x0040105c main+0xc(argc=1, argv=0x531598) in crash (0x0032fe68)
crash-vc2008-Zi/wine.log:  2 0x0040105c main+0xc(argc=1, argv=0x531898) in crash (0x0032fe70)

$ grep main */valgrind.log | grep -v CRTStartup | uniq
uninit-vc6-Zi/valgrind.log:==4339==    by 0x40106D: main (uninit.c:11)
uninit-vc2008-Zi/valgrind.log:==4329==    by 0x40107B: main (in /home/dank/pdbdemo/uninit-vc2008-Zi/uninit.exe)
uninit-linux-g/valgrind.log:==3696==    by 0x8048441: main (uninit.c:11)

In other words:

          wine                 valgrind
vc6       great!               great!
vc2003    great!               no good stack?!
vc2005    no line numbers      no good stack?!
vc2008    no line numbers      no line numbers
linux     -                    great!

This issue has been filed as
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835 and
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211529
respectively.

Eric Pouech has a draft patch that fixes wine to have line 
numbers for vc2005/vc2008; it should be attached soon to
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835.  
It shouldn't be too hard to do the same in valgrind.

Dan Kegel
23 Oct 2009