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Date:      Sun, 28 Dec 1997 12:03:04 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no boot: config -g and options DDB
Message-ID:  <199712280103.MAA00351@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>It says that in the section about remote debugging using gdb.  Should I be
>able to boot a kernel that is config -g'd with options DDB and not
>stripped?  Actually I'm not really trying to do remote kernel debugging
>with gdb. 

Depends how much memory you have.

>I was thinking that I would want to config -g to make a more interesting
>dump when I call panic from in ddb, allowing me to do some poking later
>with KGDB.
>
>How does BRUCE do it??? :)

I normally use ddb.  If I want to look at a panic dump using gdb
-k (kgdb doesn't exist), then I compile a matching kernel with -g.
If I want to be sure that it's the same kernel, then I read strip.1
to relearn the correct strip flag (-d) and then strip a copy and
compare it with the dumped kernel.

Bruce



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