From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 7 10:52:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA14014 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA14009 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA04456 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:52:13 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA13178 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:52:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA14916 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:34:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610071734.TAA14916@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Another question: kernel crash dumps 8) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:34:52 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199610071403.AAA31883@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 8, 96 00:03:55 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > Erm, I thought we were talking about tracing trap frames in gdb. > You can sort of do it by hand using the above hint. The above usage of > the frame statement depends on an improvement to gdb written by Joerg. > I hope it is in the new gdb port. It wasn't really an `improvement', but an option gdb used to support on various, but not all architectures. (Has been called ``dyadic fram specification'' once, and Gary J. was the guy who preserved the functionality in gdb 4.) If i read Garett's commit message (and the context diff) right, the new gdb now finally automagically supports the special frames. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)