>> 	Understood, but for my purposes, KGDB does a far superior job
>> to DDB. It's a bummer that it's not in the i386 port.

>I agree 100%...  I _hate_ using DDB; KGDB has been much more reliable,
>and much much much easier to use than DDB, in my experience.

Here's a Really Good Compromise, that I've found works for me: when
I'm interested in debugging a particular object module (say cy.o :-),
I config and make depend the kernel, then I edit the Makefile, in the
compile directory, and add an extra rule that makes that particular
object output a .s file during compilation (usually adding -fverbose-asm,
as well).  Then, just print out the cy.c and cy.s files with a good
pretty-printer program, and sit down with both printouts while
stepping through DDB.

It's certainly not nearly as efficient as a good source level
debugger, but it's a helluva lot better than DDB alone.

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