Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic plus advice needed Message-ID: <199908050257.TAA24382@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990805101049.W62948@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 5, 1999 10:10:49 am"
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Greg Lehey writes: > >> The only one I can find now is naming the debugging kernel with a name > >> of different length. This causes different string lengths in config.c > >> and vers.c. I once thought I saw a problem related to linker sets, but > >> I was probably mistaken. > > > > So... IMHO, if we can fix this as well, it would be worth it for all > > the people who get core dumps but didn't build debug kernels. > > Do you disagree? > > I disagree that this should even be necessary. This kind of detail > was exactly the reason why I put the short-lived default debug kernel > into config. There aren't too many systems any more that don't have > an additional 30 MB for the time it takes to build the kernel, and it > solves a whole lot of potential problems. Sounds OK to me. Was this kernel.debug thing merged into -stable? If not it might be a good thing to do. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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