Re: [ros-kernel] More useful stack traces

[David W. <we...@cw...>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:18:36PM +0200, Casper Hornstrup wrote:
> I have just committed a patch that enables ReactOS to understand .stabs
> symbols (only line number, function names, and source file names though,
> but this is enough to get useful stack traces when not using a
> debugger). When ReactOS is configured for debugging, ReactOS will try to
> load symbols for every module it loads. E.g. if ReactOS loads ndis.sys,
> it will also load \SystemRoot\symbols\ndis.sym if this file exists. The
> .sym files generated by ReactOS dating before today are text files. The
> new .sym files are binary files extracted by the tools/rsym build
> utility from the non-stripped module image. If you have old .sym text
> files in your ReactOS installation, you had better remove them on your
> next update or expect trouble.
>
I still think there are better ways to get the same functionality. The code
for loading and parsing stabs should at least be localised in the kernel
debugger code (ntoskrnl/kd/).