When you specify a location, GDB needs to find the place in your program, known as code location, that corresponds to the given location spec. We call this process of finding actual …

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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.

This page explains the display command. The display command enables automatic displaying of certain expressions each time GDB stops at a breakpoint or after a step.

Several gdb commands accept arguments that specify a location of your program's code. Since gdb is a source-level debugger, a location usually specifies some line in the source code; for …

Then you can determine the name and source file location of the variable where it points, using `p/a pointer'. This interprets the address in symbolic form. For example, here GDB shows that …

Dec 8, 2015 · You can use the list command to show sources. list takes a "linespec", which is gdb terminology for the kinds of arguments accepted by break. So, you can either pass it whatever …

If you edit your program while it is being run in gdb, open another terminal, recompile your program, and restart it in gdb by typing run (args). gdb will load the new version of the program …