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Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: suggested change to
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On Monday 14 December 2009 1:12:46 am Julian Elischer wrote:
> there is now a program installed on the system (see asf(8)) that loads
> up the symbols for (k)gdb for loadab;e modules.   This page should
> reference that utility, and I believe it should reference kgdb rather
> than gdb since marcel (cc'd) (I believe) split them apart for kernel
> and non kernel work.

Bigger than that is that kgdb now auto-loads symbols for KLD's on its own and 
usually gets it right in the common case.

-- 
John Baldwin