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Subject: Re: Debugging kernel cores without a stack
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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It's because there are kernel structures which kgdb needs to get its
grubby fingers into when decoding things.

I wish things weren't so tightly coupled though..




Adrian