Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:52:19 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <seb@struchtrup.com> Cc: marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/72925: Developer's Handbook Ch. 11: replace gdb -k with kgdb Message-ID: <b5f122c58672fa6831162daa9ebd3261@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <421DB2BA.5020804@struchtrup.com> References: <200502240449.j1O4n16n039222@freefall.freebsd.org> <421DB2BA.5020804@struchtrup.com>
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On Feb 24, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup wrote: > A Problem in section 11.3 (Debugging a Crash Dump with DDD) still > remains. > `ddd -k` passes the `-k` to gdb which doesn't recognize it anymore > (aswe are using kgdb now). > Specifying `--debugger kgdb` will pass a `-q -fullname` to kgdb which > kgdb doesn't recognize. > > Maybe it would be the simplest approach to let kgdb support this > options for compatibility > (maybe just ignore them) (marcel?) They seem useful to support. In fact the -fullname (or -f) option is to be passed to the GDB core and not being ignored as it affects how stack frames are displayed. This allows DDD or Emacs to extract the file name, line number and column number. > Perhaps we should file a separate PR to not forget about it? Yes, please. I'll see if getting it in 5.4 is viable... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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