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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: Steve Kranz <skranz@ridgerun.com>,
	linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr
Subject: Re: remote GDB debugging and the __init macro of init.h
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 03:53:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001028035316.A5097@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <014a01c0402d$b432ada0$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 05:50:50PM +0200

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 05:50:50PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> What you've done should solve the problem, but note
> that it has the side effect of preventing the text and data
> sections in question from getting freed up at the end
> of initialization.  I probably should have done so myself
> last year when I was struggling with debugging some init 
> code using kgdb, but instead I simply got used to finding 
> the address in the symbol table and setting the breakpoints 
> by hex address instead of by symbol.
> 
> The real fix would be to  teach gdb to treat symbols
> in the init section as valid targets.

Did somebody look into porting KDB?

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-28  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-27 15:24 remote GDB debugging and the __init macro of init.h Steve Kranz
2000-10-27 15:50 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-27 15:50   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2000-10-28  1:53   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-10-30 17:53   ` Jun Sun
2000-10-31  4:12     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-28  1:54 ` Keith Owens

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