[Gllug] oops talk stuff now online

[Simon Trimmer]

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-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Simon Trimmer wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> The Stuff from the Kernel Debugging talk this weekend is now up on
> 	http://www.urbanmyth.org/linux/oops/
>
>
> I was a bit startled by the technical trouble we had, here's a few things I
> forgot to metion;
>
> - the strangeness matching the assembler up to the C could have been caused
>   by a compiler bug. It is not unknown for gcc to be completely broken
> - the --source option to objdump shows the source before the C preprocessor
>   has done it's stuff (substituting macros etc.)
> - the linux kernel stack is very small, only 8K in size, so the chances of
>   bad code overflowing it are quite high. This can be a real git to track
>   down, since usually the kernel will panic all over the place.
> - most of the concepts are applicable to other operating systems
> - I said it a few times, but "there really is more than one way to do it"
>
> -Simon
> Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>
>
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