May 13, 2010 · Sample db "This is a sample string",0 In GDB I type "p Sample" (without quotes) and it spits out 0x73696854. I want the actual String to print out. So I tried "printf "%s", …

Format If specified, allows overriding the output format used by the command. Valid format specifiers are: o - octal x - hexadecimal u - unsigned decimal t - binary f - floating point a - …

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 …

If GDB is printing a large array, it stops printing after it has printed the number of elements set by the set print elements command. This limit also applies to the display of strings.

Jan 24, 2013 · The second argument is $0x8049988, which is presumably the address of a string. If you want to print the contents of the address as a string, you can do that with x/s:

If that symbol does not uniquely identify the address (for example, it is a name whose scope is a single source file), you may need to clarify. One way to do this is with info line, for example …

Feb 24, 2018 · Hey, just found a command for gdb that prints a string from memory address. Looks like this x /s <addr>. Very useful if you need to print out the string that is in memory …

Expressions print and many other GDB commands accept an expression and compute its value. Any kind of constant, variable or operator defined by the programming language you are using …