Re: Kernel panic debugging (was Re: 1.3.95 is not stable)

Graham Mitchell (gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 18:22:30 +0000

> On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Joe wrote:
> >
> > > [ my kernel disassembly and code corruption oratory ]
> >
> > HOW do you do this? Sure, I know it's your beast, but it seems
> > kind of strange to know the conversion from/to x86 machine language,
> > assembly, and C offhand.
> >
> > Any tricks we don't know about? :)
>
> The main trick is having 5 years of experience with those pesky oops
> messages ;-)
>

Yeah.... When I was a student at college many years ago, one of the
support guys in the Computer Services Unit could recreate my
Fortran77 source from the dump it produced under Tops-20. The first
couple of times he did it, I was kinda stunned (being a computing
newbie and everything). Hello to Frank Drain if he's still going
about business.

Graham

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