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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:23:22 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 db_trace.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106191619480.14720-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010618123708.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 18-Jun-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > Can we also please try to find some code to print a symbolic (preferably)
> > or numeric traceback on panic, even if DDB is not in the kernel ?
> 
> Well, you would just need to always compile db_trace.o into the kernel, and
> then you would need to call it in the !DDB case in panic().  However, that is
> quite ddb specific, so people using other kernel debuggers might object.

Hopefully db_trace.c is modular enough to use independently of other
kernel debuggers.  db_disasm.c should be used too (to print the faulting
instruction in trap_fatal()).

Bruce


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