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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Debugging BTX Faults
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On 20-Mar-2002 Hiten Pandya wrote:
> On 20-Mar-2002 Hiten Pandya wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> > How does one debug faults in the BTX Loader?  I am currently trying
>> to work on PR i386/21559, and after reading jhb's document on the
>> loading process, I was curious to know..
> 
>> Well, you need to be fairly familiar with how IA32 works.  The int=
>> number is the fault that was triggered.  Then, use a program to convert 
>> the hex dump at cs:eip to binary
> 
> Which tool can be used for this task?  Any available in the ports?

Not that I'm aware of, I just wrote a little util in C.  Not very hard to one
to write. :)

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