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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Whither ddb
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As J"org wrote:
> 
> As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> 
> > What exactly is the strategy for debugging a kernel?
> 
> Read chapter 19 of the handbook.
> 

I have tried to follow chapter 19 in the handbook, but I havn't got it
working the way I understood it should.

The handbook says:
  The DDB commands roughly resemble some gdb commands. The first you 
  probably need is to set a breakpoint: 
 
       b function-name
       b address

But if I try to use the b function-name I always get the response that
there is no symbol with that name (I have tried different function names).
My kernel has the OPTION DDB and is configured with -d and it is not 
stripped.

I have the same problem when I try to look at data in memory with the x
command, why is this?

/Mattias
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