tech-kern: Re: DDB documentation and machine specific commands

Subject: Re: DDB documentation and machine specific commands
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/25/1998 19:57:31

At 10:57 Uhr +0100 25.03.1998, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

>Telling random NetBSD/Amiga users to drop into ddb and either singlestep or
>breakpoint forwards until they see where it hangs, or to "trace" and tell us
>where it paniced, is uhm... routinely done, and in case of autoconfiguration
>time problems the only method to find out what happened.

The very same goes for mac68k (and most probably for atari, too).

>Now, I agree that a live, or at least coredump, gdb environment, is more
>comfortable for serious debugging.

Yep.

	hauke



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