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Re: amd64: kernel aslr support
> Here is a Kernel ASLR implementation for NetBSD-amd64. [...]
> Contrary to what has been said in previous discussions, KASLR does
> not alter debugability in any way: the symbols are still mapped in
> memory as they are right now, and ddb resolves them as usual.
I disagree that that's enough to "not alter debugability in any way".
It makes common debugging tasks work, perhaps, but I have occasionally
run into cases where all I have is a pc value (even less often, but
it's still happened, a data address) and have had nothing but /netbsd's
symbol table to help me make sense of it.
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