Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:54:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel debugging questions Message-ID: <19990917125419.G55065@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5lvha945ln.fsf@assaris.sics.se>; from Assar Westerlund on Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 03:37:40PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990819213328.29326A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <5lvha945ln.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
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On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 15:37:40 +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> writes: >> Thanks for your response. I can not think of those points myself. >> However, on page 7 of the book "Panic! Unix system crash dump analysis", >> it says that a debugger named kadb in SunOS can load the real kernel >> during boot and treat the latter like a great, big, user program, stepping >> through its execution, examining and modifying values on the fly. >> >> It seems to me that FreeBSD does not have such a debugger. Maybe ddb can >> do so, but it works with assembly. > > kadb also works with assembly. That being said, I much prefer ddb to > kadb, and of course remote gdb is *much* nicer. [catching up] The nice thing about kadb is that it has a usable macro languge. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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