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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 1995 16:46:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: on line kernel symbols?
Message-ID:  <199509131446.QAA04359@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509130105.SAA00166@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 12, 95 06:05:07 pm

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As David Greenman wrote:
> 
> >I forgot what was the "magic" switch to load symbols at boot time

>    If you have current boot blocks and you have DDB in your kernel, then the
> symbols are automatically loaded and preserved. No options are needed.

If you want to shoot in your foot, try booting a "-g" kernel. :-) It
will happily consume 8 MB of physical RAM... non-pageable, of course.

(If you want to avoid this, strip -x it before.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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