[Crash-utility] Problem with disassembling functions that use BUG()

[Snitselaar, Jerry]

On 3/6/06 11:54 AM, "Dave Anderson" <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:

> Not off-hand...
> 
> It's a "known issue" that I've gotten around it by, starting at the virtual
> addresses
> after the ud2a, running multiple new "dis" attempts at each successive address
> until it makes sense.  It's strange, sometimes nothing really needs to be done
> because it shows just a couple instructions as bogus, but then "gets back on
> track", while other times it never gets back in sync with the real
> instructions.
> 
> Ideally it should be handled in the gdb code, which is what's screwing it up.
> Crash is just taking the gdb disassembly output and running it through a
> per-processor-type filter function to improve what you get from gdb.
> 
> Dave
> 
> --
I will resort to using dis in that matter to get around it, and pass that on
to the level 2 people here who will possibly run across this working
customer issues.