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Re: Module support

To: Andreas Herrmann <AHERRMAN@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Module support
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:37:57 -0700
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Organization: Alacritech, Inc.
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What about a '-m' option to specify additional map files on start-up?
Or a '-M' to specify a map directory?  Does that seem to be a better
universal solution?

--Matt

Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> 
> >> Second: Currently there is no automatism to load symbol tables and
> >> namelists.
> 
> >I'm not sure what you mean here ... you don't mean what 'vmdump save'
> >does, right?  Are you talking about copying the files to /boot, or
> >saving them to /var/log/vmdump, or something else?
> 
> Something else I meant.
> 
> In our new lcrash version (with support for multiple symbol tables) you
> have to execute several commands in lcrash to load symbol information and
> type information for the modules to be analyzed. It would be nice to
> automate these steps. One way would be to use a lcrash configuration file.
> There
> you could say: "for module xyz use symbol table xyz.map and type
> information
> of file xyz.o" etc.
> 
> Andreas
> 
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