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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 20:21:45 -0700
To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Mark Peek <mp@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: gdb breaks world
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At 10:54 AM -0700 5/27/02, David O'Brien wrote:
>Verify that your entire kernel is built with "-g -gstabs+".  If you still
>cannot use gdb on a core dump, maybe there is a core dump format change
>GDB needs to catch up with.  Please use the various objdump, etc. tools
>to verify what type of debugging is in kernel.debug.

I merged some of the gdb src/ code into the devel/gdb52 port to allow 
it to debug i386 kernels (without the -gstabs+ compile option). The 
replacement port can be found here:

   http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mp/gdb52.tar.gz


I'd appreciate feedback prior to committing it.

Thanks,
Mark

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