Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>>> Actually, having cc'd Linus made me think very _carefully_ about what I
>>> say and I went and checked how the userspace does it, as I couldn't
>>> believe that such fine piece of software as gdb would be broken as well.
>>> And to my surprize I discovered that gdb (when a program is compiled 
>>> with
>>> -g) works fine! I.e. it shows the function arguments correctly. And
>>
>> so why don't you use kgdb instead of kdb ?
> 
> If kdb was some dead unmaintained piece of software then, yes, I would 
> follow your advice and switch to kgdb. But kdb is a very nice and 
> actively maintained piece of work, so it should be fixed to show the 
> parameter values correctly in the backtrace.

That's a kdb maintainer issue.  The x86-64 folks have nicely provided a 
set of libraries to do backtraces, etc.  Your previous rant is just so 
far off base it's not even funny.

	-hpa