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[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Martin wrote:
> On 09/08/2012 14:09, Martin wrote:
>> On 09/08/2012 14:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> When debugging e.g. a cdecl call to a standard library, how can one 
>>> inspect the top few words on the stack?
>>>
>>
>> Usually at least the top most frame is shown (though locals, and 
>> params may not)
>> If further frames or some info is missing, then it usually means gdb 
>> does not know how to read the stackframe.
>>
>> Not sure what can be done.
>>
> If you mean raw memory
> 
> depends on cpu. Intel with esp, add a watch, set to memory dump:
>   ^Byte($esp)[-20]
> 
> starts 20 bytes before esp

Thanks, I think that'll do. I'm trying to sort out a shared library 
call- the interface to the library is working properly but I suspect a 
higher-level shim is confusing a pointer and a value somewhere.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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