Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD)

[Chris Mason]

On Friday 24 June 2005 00:59, jmerkey wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>It's a GBD replacement and is not fully open source.
> >
> >What is not open source in it ()?
> >
> >>KDB is at present more capable. It has a lot of promise, but it does not
> >>have the all the architectural
> >>features necessary to replace either KDB or GDB at present.
> >
> >While I never used or saw kdb, I'd be curious about what you immediately
> > saw missing...
>
> 1. No back trace
> 2. Doesn't run standalone fully embeded in the kernel
> 3. Not fully open source (since it's not embeded in the kernel)
> 4. IA64 doesn't really matter, since IA64 is basically dead anyway
> 5. No advanced recursive descent parser for conditional breakpoints

This is more or less completely inaccurate.

-chris


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