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Date:      Sun, 04 May 1997 16:30:12 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za
Subject:   Re: help needed with kernel debuging and gdb 
Message-ID:  <199705042131.PAA18504@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 1997 07:13:06 %2B1000." <199705042113.HAA26318@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>BTW, it's annoying that this long message gets printed before traps
>to ddb.  It occurs internally for disassembly at $eip, including for
>`sh r' and scrolls the output of `sh r' off the screen, and there is no
>scrollback or general more-style paging in ddb.  `sh r' also uses too much
>vertical space and would be unusable if there were a few more registers.
>Even i386's have more than 25 registers counting the special ones.
>
>Bruce

Next time you're in DDB, try using the syscons scroll back.  It seems
to work just find for me if I hit a key between each tap of a pgUp/Down
key.  I don't know why this works since interrupts are obviously disabled.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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