Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 02:13:34 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, garyj@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: httpd in free(): warning: modified (page-) pointer. Message-ID: <199708011613.CAA16320@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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 >... >has it always had this problem or did it start after the changes >in -current to eliminate the user structure ? This is probably the bug that started in FreeBSD-2.0 and was fixed a while ago (4.4BSDLite doesn't write vm_daddr to cores, and gdb was configured to use vm_daddr). Bruce
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