Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:04:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>,
       Jack F Vogel <jfv@bluesong.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> Actually, having cc'd Linus made me think very _carefully_ about what I
>> say and I went and checked how the userspace does it, as I couldn't
>> believe that such fine piece of software as gdb would be broken as well.
>> And to my surprize I discovered that gdb (when a program is compiled with
>> -g) works fine! I.e. it shows the function arguments correctly. And
>
>
> so why don't you use kgdb instead of kdb ?

If kdb was some dead unmaintained piece of software then, yes, I would 
follow your advice and switch to kgdb. But kdb is a very nice and actively 
maintained piece of work, so it should be fixed to show the parameter 
values correctly in the backtrace.

Kind regards
Tigran
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