suggested change to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-kld.html

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 14 16:46:56 UTC 2009


On Monday 14 December 2009 1:12:46 am Julian Elischer wrote:
> there is now a program installed on the system (see asf(8)) that loads
> up the symbols for (k)gdb for loadab;e modules.   This page should
> reference that utility, and I believe it should reference kgdb rather
> than gdb since marcel (cc'd) (I believe) split them apart for kernel
> and non kernel work.

Bigger than that is that kgdb now auto-loads symbols for KLD's on its own and 
usually gets it right in the common case.

-- 
John Baldwin



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