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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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