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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:01:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mark Peek <mp@freebsd.org>, dfr@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please install and test the GDB 5.2 port
Message-ID:  <200206261901.g5QJ18r70701@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <20020607120246.A45465@dragon.nuxi.com>

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"David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> wrote:

> Mark Peek and DFR have made patches against GDB 5.2 such that it
> should do everything we need it to.  It would be most helpful for
> people to test this before it goes into /usr/src.

j@uriah 133% gdb52 kernel.debug /cdrom/vmcore.1
GNU gdb 5.2
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-portbld-freebsd5.0"...
"/cdrom/vmcore.1" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
(gdb) quit
j@uriah 134% gdb52 -k kernel.debug /cdrom/vmcore.1
gdb52: unrecognized option `-k'
Use `gdb52 --help' for a complete list of options.

Hmm, so how to debug a kernel coredump?

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