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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Whither ddb
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>> 	Stopped at      _Debugger+0x2b: movb    $0,_in_Debugger.100
>> 	db>
>> 
>> ddb doesn't understand names with `.' in them like the one above.

>What is this number for?

It's to distinguish the static variable `in_Debugger' which is only
in scope in Debugger() from other variables with the same name.

Bruce