From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 5 3:13:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E76C714C58 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 03:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 5 Aug 1999 11:12:59 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:12:58 +0100 From: David Malone To: Greg Lehey Cc: Archie Cobbs , Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic plus advice needed Message-ID: <19990805111258.A70089@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <199908040936.TAA13368@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199908041612.JAA98396@bubba.whistle.com> <19990805101049.W62948@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990805101049.W62948@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:10:49AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:10:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. It does cause problems when you keep the kernels for 8 different machines in one /usr/src. I've never had any problems with -g generating different code as long as the stuff in vers.c doesn't change length. Being able to reproduce a kernel with debugging symbols seems like a reasonable aim to me. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message