----- "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Currently??? Never has, never will... The basic design of the crash utility is that it is essentially a huge wrapper around the embedded gdb module, taking advantage of gdb's allowance of an alternative user interface. So during initialization, crash calls into the embedded gdb's main() function, passing it the vmlinux file as an argument, and control comes back to the crash code through gdb's command_loop_hook pointer. Even if the basic code flow were re-written, again, making it a completely different design, there are just so many requirements that need structure member offsets in order to get off the ground, I don't want to even bother thinking about them all. Look at any of the per-architecture *_init(POST_GDB) functions, and try to envision crash running running without the offsets that it needs. Dave