Jan 24, 2013 · Is this the correct way to read the value of an address in gdb? I was kind of expecting to find a more ascii friendly hex value. I am interested in finding the stored string value that is compared …

GDB prints memory addresses showing the location of stack traces, structure values, pointer values, breakpoints, and so forth, even when it also displays the contents of those addresses.

Previous value number When this format is used and i is specified as the previous value number, the print command will repeat the output produced by its i-th invocation. Type/Address This format allows …

Output Formats (Debugging with GDB)By default, GDB prints a value according to its data type. Sometimes this is not what you want. For example, you might want to print a number in hex, or a …

If you omit expr, GDB displays the last value again (from the value history; see section Value history). This allows you to conveniently inspect the same value in an alternative format. A more low-level way …

When GDB prints a symbolic address, it normally prints the closest earlier symbol plus an offset. If that symbol does not uniquely identify the address (for example, it is a name whose scope is a single …

To print instance variables of a C++ class in gdb, it is sometimes necessary to include an explicit object pointer. For example, after setting a breakpoint in the tick method of the class Guitar and continuing …

Aug 13, 2012 · From this link gdb interpret memory address as an object we know that, if an object of class type A is at a specific address such as 0x6cf010, then we can use: (gdb) p *(A *) 0x6cf010 to …