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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:45:44 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Kernel debugging: what's going on here?
Message-ID:  <19980228124544.45624@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980228123253.24049@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 12:32:53PM %2B1030
References:  <19980228122110.36590@freebie.lemis.com> <199802280156.RAA29982@dingo.cdrom.com> <19980228123253.24049@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Sat, 28 February 1998 at 12:32:53 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Fri, 27 February 1998 at 17:56:46 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>>> On Fri, 27 February 1998 at 17:45:39 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> Yes, I noticed.  But rewriting the bp on the fly is not uncommon; quite
>> a few device drivers do it, it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't done
>> elsewhere rather than cloning the original.
>
> Sure, all sorts of things modify the buffer header.  But you're still
> missing the point: the processor is stopped here, it's in the
> debugger.  No instructions were executed between the two views.  You
> might just as well take a look at a dump.  Since when does the content
> of memory differ depending on where you look at it from?

Found! thanks to the help of a private reply.  For some reason, my
struct vnode looks different in each frame.  I was using the pointer
in the buf header instead of the absolute address.

Greg

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