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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:45:07 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 db_trace.c 
Message-ID:  <86104.992893507@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:37:08 PDT." <XFMail.010618123708.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.010618123708.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>
>On 18-Jun-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Can we also please try to find some code to print a symbolic (preferably)
>> or numeric traceback on panic, even if DDB is not in the kernel ?
>
>Well, you would just need to always compile db_trace.o into the kernel, and
>then you would need to call it in the !DDB case in panic().  However, that is
>quite ddb specific, so people using other kernel debuggers might object.

For people who know what a kernel debugger is we can add
	option NOPANICTRACEBACK
it would improve the quality of "my machine paniced" PRs a lot...

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