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On Fri, 2 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> If you are not debugging sl?b.c code/pages, then why would you want to see
> what those fields are?

Because you are f.e. inspecting a core dump and want to see why certain 
fields have certain values to verify that the structures were not 
overwrittten or corrupted etc.