[ros-kernel] kdb and symbol files

[Jason Filby]

Yes  - I saw this bug - but it started to disappear once I put debug 
prints in PCI.sys to try and find out what was going wrong; I still
felt 
uneasy about not finding the source of the problem though. Thanks for

fixing it!

Cheers
Jason

art yerkes wrote:

>It turns out that kdb had a serious bug when loading symbol files. 
I'm not
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>sure who else uses it, but you may have noticed it drop into the
debugger
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>after loading pci.sys with an exception 14.  This was due to the
Length
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>argument to KdbProcessStabs being interpreted as the length of the
module
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>name (actually, it's the length of the whole module).  That's why
'big'
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>symbol files were causing this error (SP + large number -> outside
the stack).
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>Now that this is fixed, I'll be checking in the fix and some other
nice
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>kdb improvements I've had here, but wasn't able to verify because of
the
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>bug.
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