On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:59:00PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Kris Kennaway writes: > > I've been having trouble getting gdb -k on alpha to give me sensible > > backtraces. For example, here is the backtrace of a softupdates panic > > that I dumped by calling doadump in ddb: > > <..> > > > #6 0xfffffc000058fe48 in trap (a0=1, a1=1, a2=18446739675669307791, entry=3, > > framep=0xfffffe0006c59818) at > /a/asami/portbuild/alpha/src-client/sys/alpha/alpha/trap.c:382 > > #7 0xfffffc0000580928 in XentIF () at machine/asm.h:62 > > > As I've mentioned before, gdb on alpha looses its marbles when there's > a trap in the stack trace. An explicit panic without a trap works fine. > Ddb works fine in any circumstance.
Hmm, ok, thanks. I guess I can use addr2line to trace through the panic. Kirk usually needs information from the (missing, in this case) stack frames to debug it though :-( Kris
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