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To: "Clay D. Hopperdietzel" <hoppy@appsmiths.com>
cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: GDB still broken? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Feb 95 07:47:17 CST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 05:53:21 -0800
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>:: 
>:: >
>:: >Hi,
>:: >
>:: >I saw a commit message go by sometime either yesterday or day before about 
>:: >something being fixed which was intended to repair GDB causing kernel panics.
>:: >
>:: >I supped current earlier today (about 2PMcst) and rebuilt, but alas the problem
>:: >still seems to be there.  In particular, I get:
>:: 
>::    Are you sure you rebuilt and reinstalled a new kernel?? The bug was of
>:: course in the kernel, not in gdb.
>:: 
>:: -DG
>:: 
>I believe I did.  After I supped, I stomped the whole 'compile' directory,
>reran config, and did a make in the compile directory, mv'ed to /
>
>I went ahead and supped again this morning, and am rebuilding the whole 
>kernel from scratch again, in case I lost my mind somehow yesterday.
>
>In the meantime, is there anything I can look for to make sure I actually got
>the change you meant to make through sup?

   Look at the revision of /sys/kern/sys_process.c and make sure it is rev 1.9.

>I should also say the executable I'm aiming it at is pretty fat.  I've got 
>16MB of ram, but loading this monster in GDB pages the bejeezus out of
>my box.  I'll also try it with something smaller, & let you know my findings.

   Thanks..

-DG