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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:00:30 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r185739 - head/sys/ufs/ufs
Message-ID:  <200812091600.30942.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081208194229.GX2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <200812071325.mB7DP64P026630@svn.freebsd.org> <200812081141.39800.jhb@freebsd.org> <20081208194229.GX2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Monday 08 December 2008 02:42:29 pm Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:41:39AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 December 2008 08:25:06 am Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > Author: kib
> > > Date: Sun Dec  7 13:25:06 2008
> > > New Revision: 185739
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185739
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Improve usefulness of the panic by printing the pointer to the 
problematic
> > >   dquot. In-tree gdb is often unable to get the dq value, so supply it 
in
> > >   panic message.
> > 
> > Even in userland I find gdb to be an epic fail for handling local
> > variables if inlined functions are involved. I haven't tried a newer
> > gdb from ports to see if it fares better in that case.
> 
> I have locally built 6.8 exactly for this purposes, made by configure;make.
> I can confirm that its dwarf handling is _much_ better then in-tree gdb.

Hmm, I wonder what it would take to update our in-tree gdb.  Is 6.8 gplv3?

-- 
John Baldwin



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