Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:50:14 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom Message-ID: <20020910032014.GG20691@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <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> <3D7D639A.99E034EC@mindspring.com>
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On Monday, 9 September 2002 at 20:14:34 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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-). That depends on how well you use each tool. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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