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Date:      Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:51:08 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Kernel debugging: what's going on here?
Message-ID:  <34FAFF9C.59E2B600@whistle.com>
References:  <19980228123253.24049@freebie.lemis.com> <199802280214.SAA00165@dingo.cdrom.com> <19980228124844.00033@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 February 1998 at 18:14:02 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >> On Fri, 27 February 1998 at 17:56:46 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >>> Yes, I noticed.  But rewriting the bp on the fly is not uncommon; quite
> >>> a few device drivers do it, it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't done
> >>> elsewhere rather than cloning the original.
> >>
> >> Sure, all sorts of things modify the buffer header.  But you're still
> >> missing the point: the processor is stopped here, it's in the
> >> debugger.  No instructions were executed between the two views.  You
> >> might just as well take a look at a dump.  Since when does the content
> >> of memory differ depending on where you look at it from?
> >
> > Whoops.  OK, are we sure that "bp" points to the same type in both
> > cases?
> 
> Not any more :-)  Somebody else replied first.
> 
> > And more importantly, that bp->b_vp is expected to be the same type?
> 
> Yes, it was.
> 
> > (Yes, this is *really* clutching at straws).  There's not much else
> > short of a GDB bug that I can think of that would cause this.
> 
> Thanks.  I should have seen this myself, but sometimes you end up
> looking in the wrong place.
> 
> Greg
> 
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Ah struct vnode changed recently...
didi you do a 'make depend' ?

bet it didn't recompile some source...

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