Subject: Re: Problems with current
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Alex Zepeda <zipzippy@sonic.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/07/2003 18:24:26
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:59:23PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> crash dumps aren't implemented on powerpc, alas.

Ah.  Is it a matter of code not being written or is there some
architectural problem?

> > But the message I got was about a failed assertation (sdp != NULL) in
> > uvm_swap.c line 1607 (current process was 'reaper').
> 
> ok, it's just freeing an address space.   a stack trace won't tell us much,
> the corruption no doubt happened much earlier.

Well is there anything I can do to get more useful information?

With FreeBSD I ran with WITNESS and INVARIANTS, what options would provide
similar functionality?

- alex