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Date:      Mon, 09 Sep 2002 20:14:34 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom
Message-ID:  <3D7D639A.99E034EC@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.20020906135858.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3D78F291.8010005@millions.ca> <20020908064449.GG46846@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3D7D212E.6030601@millions.ca> <20020910021732.GB20691@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> There will always be situations where the debugger can't catch the
> problem in time.  Then it's up to you to guess and put a breakpoint
> just before it freezes; this can be an interative process.  The method
> requiring the least thought is to single step over function calls
> until the system freezes.  Then you know which function it happened
> in.  Reboot, set a breakpoint in that function, and repeat.

Dumping a bunch of printf's in, with "Here 1\n", "Here 2\n", and so
on will find this problem a lot faster than an equivalent number of
reboots.  8-).

-- Terry

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