On Jul 17, 10:53am, nigel@ind.tansu.com.au (nigel@ind.tansu.com.au) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: libsa/loadfile.c

| 	Sure - no header, no symbols. What I really mean is, if there
| is no header, will DDB crash and burn? Or will it just be a little
| "dumber" than usual ( Dumb DeBugger :-)

You want to do the right thing, because it is not worth braking ddb
for a few lines of code.
 
| >  > 2) Does DDB _require_ the exec header from an a.out kernel?
| > 
| > No.  DDB for a.out symbols works completely differently
| 
| 	OK. So if the Booter's LOAD_KERNEL has LOAD_HDR,
| then both a.out and ELF kernels will have full DDB support,
| otherwise just a.out ones will work ?

Yes, so write the bits for ELF so that it works like every other
platform.

christos