Re: To see a memory location using gdb

[Andrew Cagney]

> If the memory you are pointing to, points to a char then do "p (char *)ptr"
> else cast the pointer to the specific type it points to. (void *) is just a
> pointer to something, so gdb does not know how to interpret the value the
> pointer points to.


The other option is the ``x'' command.

        x/4b   0xc0c8ab0

will print that as 4 bytes

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> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:48 AM
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> Subject: To see a memory location using gdb
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>
> Hi every body,
>  I was looking for a GDB news group and i can found only this one.
> There is one void * ptr. And if i want to see the memory content what
> can i do? If i try print ptr, then i can see the memory address
> (suppose it is 0xc0c8ab0). Please help.
>
> Mem