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From: loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel debugger
Date: 21 Jul 1996 06:47:48 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <4sl6u8$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Read the section about kernel debugging in the handbook.  It sheds a
>light on these questions, and explains the relative merits of ddb and
>kgdb (which are both available, but are not seperate commands).

Thanks for the pointer, it solved my problem. Now that I'm getting into
ddb, I found that it usually displays function names - except when I'm
in a loadable module. Is that my fault or ddb's?
Also, is there work going on to improve DDB? Having local variables
would be really nice (I would not care about the complete debug taking
up several MB), and source access would be just great (probably on user
request, to disable any side effects that loading the source would have).

Thanks,
Martin