> My experience with the gdb protocol has been very > negative; it's > very poorly designed, and prone to breakage.
And, with a little luck, nobody from the GNU camp is reading this list :-) > While some kind of kmdb(1)-over-ethernet might be > very cool... Yes.. given that trying to get a KMDB session to work through LOM is such a pain and many new x86 hardware platforms do not have a serial port, that would be wonderful. > straightforward (if > slightly time consuming) to backtrack from the > assembly. I have one significant pain point with mdb, perhaps it is just my ignorance: I find it difficult to reconstruct stack frames, ie. local variables on 64 bit amd. A bit off topic, but is there an easy way to obtain at least the rbp values for the prior stack frames? E.g. the AIX kdb has an option for their stack backtrace to print register state for each stack frame on the stack. To be fair, kudos to the folks at SUN for recognizing the need of field supportability, and giving us mdb. Also, dtrace is sheer goodness, and I do not have _much_ to complain about. Cheers, Steve -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
