Sometimes this is not what you want For example, you might want to print a number in hex, or a pointer in decimal Or you might want to view data in memory at a certain address as a character string or as an instruction To do these things, specify an output format when you print a value. Using gdb's python extension, you can run any gdb command and put its output into a convenience variable, whose type will be an array of characters You can then use this convenience variable in a printf command with the %s format.
By default, gdb prints a value according to its data type Format if specified, allows overriding the output format used by the command I'd like to do printf style printing from gdb For instance, i want to print a variable value, but with some text to describe what it is Can it be done, and if so, can you give an example? Print settings (debugging with gdb)when gdb prints a symbolic address, it normally prints the closest earlier symbol plus an offset
One way to do this is with info line, for example ‘ info line *0x4537 ’ Alternately, you can set gdb to print the.
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