Microsoft KB Archive/170171

= PRB: DUMPBIN Displays Cumulative Data for Multiple Arguments =

Article ID: 170171

Article Last Modified on 9/23/2003

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This article was previously published under Q170171



SYMPTOMS
DUMPBIN.EXE combines output data when more than one file is passed in as command line arguments. For example:

dumpbin myfile.exe myfile.dll

will show summary data for both files, rather than for each individual file.



RESOLUTION
To prevent the combination of data, execute DUMPBIN on one file at a time.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.



MORE INFORMATION
To illustrate this problem, we're using two of the Source Profiler binaries, PREP.EXE and PROFILE.DLL.

The output from "dumpbin prep.exe" (without the quotes): Dump of file prep.exe

File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE

Summary

6000 .data 1000 .idata 1000 .rdata 4000 .rsrc D000 .text Now, the output from "dumpbin profile.dll": Dump of file profile.dll

File Type: DLL

Summary

B000 .data 1000 .idata 2000 .rdata 2000 .reloc 3000 .rsrc 10000 .text And finally, the output from "dumpbin prep.exe profile.dll": Dump of file prep.exe

File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE ?  Dump of file profile.dll

File Type: DLL

Summary

11000 .data 2000 .idata 3000 .rdata 2000 .reloc 7000 .rsrc 1D000 .text Notice that each of the segment categories listed in the DUMPBIN output for both files is the sum of each individual file.

Additional query words: kbVC400bug kbDSupport

Keywords: kbprb KB170171

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