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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Panic plus advice needed
In-Reply-To: <199908040936.TAA13368@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Aug 4, 1999 07:36:59 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
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Bruce Evans writes:
> >> >Any objections to the patch below?
> >> 
> >> Yes.  It bloats the kernel and only fixed one cause of the problem.
> >
> >What are the others..?
> 
> The only one I can find now is naming the debugging kernel with a name
> of different length.  This causes different string lengths in config.c
> and vers.c.  I once thought I saw a problem related to linker sets, but
> I was probably mistaken.

So... IMHO, if we can fix this as well, it would be worth it for all
the people who get core dumps but didn't build debug kernels.
Do you disagree?

-Archie

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