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- From: pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Peter Schauer)
- Subject: Re: gdb4.6 and kernel panics on ISC (was UHC SVR4 and gdb 4.6)
- Message-ID: <pes.715700389@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
- Keywords: UHC SVR4 GNU GDB GCC
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- Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
- References: <1992Aug28.143245.3986@lgc.com> <andrewh.715249748@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:39:49 GMT
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- andrewh@cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew Herbert) writes:
-
- >>However, when I try *USING* gdb on a small "hello world" test program
- >>compiled with gcc -g, my kernel panics as sure as the sun rises in the
- >>east!
-
- >I'm using UHC SVR4.0.2.0 too, and have the same problem. gdb has done this
- >for as long as I can remember - certainly 4.4 and 4.5 paniced the system too!
- >It is nothing to do with gcc, as compiling with cc -g also has the same effect.
- >I imagine it's a bug associated in one of the /proc filesystem ioctls used by
- >gdb but not sdb. As far as I know other SVR4s don't have this problem, and
- >hopefully not UHC's version 3.6! But I'm waiting for SVR4.2. :-)
-
- And it also happens here with ISC 2.2.
- I suspect that the panics are due to some swapping problems as they only
- happen during debugging large programs and always when gdb hits a break
- (so it has to be swapped in again).
-
- Anybody got a solution ?
- Will upgrading to ISC 3.x help ?
-
- Peter Schauer pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
-