Description guy bonneau 2015-03-06 18:59:01 EST

Some tools within a toolchain can potentially generate an output resource with the same name even if the input resource name to the tool is not the same. In such case the CDT Managed builder will complain and throw an exception thus aborting the compilation. 

This is the case for example of the Microsoft C/C++ compiler. When symbols are optionally requested and generated while C/C++ source files are compiled they are added/merged to a unique intermediate pdb symbol file which by default is called VCx.pdb (x being the compiler version)

To support a toolchain that has tools generating an output resource with the same name a new build property attribute associated to the tool is needed to specify that a tool can generate an output resource with the same name every time it is called.