kdb prompt??

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 24 May 2001 09:00:02 -0400, 
Kapish K <kapish at ureach.com> wrote:
>another query... how does the frame pointer support help in
>obtaining better debug information?

In theory they help to work out where the stack frames are for the back
trace command, the early versions of kdb required frame pointers to do
backtrace.  But see the comments at the start of kdb_get_next_ar() in
kdb/kdbsupport.c and kdba_prologue() in arch/i386/kdb/kdbasupport.c.