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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Panic plus advice needed
In-Reply-To: <19990805101049.W62948@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 5, 1999 10:10:49 am"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
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Greg Lehey writes:
> >> 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?
> 
> I disagree that this should even be necessary.  This kind of detail
> was exactly the reason why I put the short-lived default debug kernel
> into config.  There aren't too many systems any more that don't have
> an additional 30 MB for the time it takes to build the kernel, and it
> solves a whole lot of potential problems.

Sounds OK to me. Was this kernel.debug thing merged into -stable?
If not it might be a good thing to do.

-Archie

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