Date: 21 Aug 1999 15:37:40 +0200 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel debugging questions Message-ID: <5lvha945ln.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Zhihui Zhang's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:48:00 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990819213328.29326A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> writes: > Thanks for your response. I can not think of those points myself. > However, on page 7 of the book "Panic! Unix system crash dump analysis", > it says that a debugger named kadb in SunOS can load the real kernel > during boot and treat the latter like a great, big, user program, stepping > through its execution, examining and modifying values on the fly. > > It seems to me that FreeBSD does not have such a debugger. Maybe ddb can > do so, but it works with assembly. kadb also works with assembly. That being said, I much prefer ddb to kadb, and of course remote gdb is *much* nicer. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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