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Date:      Fri, 01 Aug 97 16:39:30 +0200
From:      garyj@frt.dec.com
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: httpd in free(): warning: modified (page-) pointer. 
Message-ID:  <9708011439.AA13051@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>  of Fri,  01 Aug 97 02:24:07 EDT.

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wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu writes:
>   Caveats:
> 
> 	o With our gdb, it is sometimes difficult to use a core dump
> 	  to properly debug things: you will be able to get a stack
> 	  trace and locate the exact line in the source where the program
> 	  died, however not all of the environment is preserved: variables
> 	  are not properly reloaded with the values they posessed when
> 	  the crash took place. If the program crashes while being run
> 	  in gdb, then you can examine variables and memory contents
> 	  with no problems, but trying to do it with just the crash dump
> 	  and the executable doesn't seem to work. (It seems to work with
> 	  kernel crash dumps though.) I wish it  did; it would make my life
> 	  a lot easier.
> 

has it always had this problem or did it start after the changes
in -current to eliminate the user structure ?

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