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diff --git a/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst b/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst index cd8d8b8..6a28ddb 100644 --- a/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst +++ b/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst @@ -222,7 +222,10 @@ If you want to use GDB to debug a program that is compiled with the PNaCl toolchain, you must have a copy of the pexe from **before** running ``pnacl-finalize``. The ``pnacl-finalize`` tool converts LLVM bitcode to the stable PNaCl bitcode format, but it also strips out debug -metadata, which we need for debugging. +metadata, which we need for debugging. In this section we'll give the +LLVM bitcode file a ``.bc`` file extension, and the PNaCl bitcode file +a ``.pexe`` file extension. The actual extension should not matter, but +it helps distinguish between the two types of files. **Note** unlike the finalized copy of the pexe, the non-finalized debug copy is not considered stable. This means that a debug copy of the PNaCl |