Re: Use of symbolic names

[slurn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Lurndal)]

> 
> This is a newbe question...
> 
> Is it possible to use symbolic names for variables, functions etc during
> debugging? If yes how ?

Use the names.   Symbolic names are supported by kdb.  Due to the
fact that names with file scope (e.g. static) can be replicated
between multiple source files, some names (do_poll comes to mind) 
may be ambiguous when used with kdb. 

At this time, only names with global, external or file scope are 
known to the debugger.  Names with function scope or block-local
scope will not be visible to the kernel debugger.   There are a 
number of practical reasons that this is so.

scott

> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Christos Antonopoulos
>