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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Thinner DDB Message-ID: <1993Mar27.215750.13713@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1993Mar27.031226.25373@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <C4JJq5.IEr@agora.rain.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 21:57:50 GMT Lines: 19 DDB, as currently written, is an initialized-data hog. I have placed all the code necessary to load symbols at run-time on tsornin.emba.uvm.edu:/386BSD/ddb-dynamic.tar.Z; this includes new versions of ioctl.h, sys_generic.c, dbsym.c, and db_aout.c. Note that this dramatically changes the function of `dbsym'. It also creates a new ioctl to load the symbols from any open file; this is very useful for loadable kernel modules. Now, does anybody want to write the code to figure out source line numbers in ddb? The hooks are there, it's just the code that's missing. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant