From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 13 17:59:24 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F1337B409; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f7E0xGa42989; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:59:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200108140059.f7E0xGa42989@earth.backplane.com> To: Bruce Evans Cc: John Baldwin , Bruce Evans , , Subject: Re: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c References: <20010814091732.A8344-100000@besplex.bde.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote: : :> On 13-Aug-01 Bruce Evans wrote: :> > bde 2001/08/13 06:22:50 PDT :> > :> > Modified files: :> > sys/i386/i386 machdep.c :> > Log: :> > Use interrupt gates instead of trap gates for breakpoint and trace :> > traps, so that ddb can keep control (almost) no matter how it is :> > entered. ... : :> I take it the disabling of interrupts in Debugger() can be axed now? : :Yes. Also in i386-gdbstub.c. : :The anti-reentrancy flag in Debugger() can probably be axed too. It :is similarly half-baked and is now unnecessary for preventing reentrance :via the keyboard interrupt handler. : :Bruce Cool! off topic: did you happen to notice the massive documentation of trap and interrupt gates that I added in march of last year to exception.s ? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message