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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: Provision for array as debugger variable
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:15:00 -0000
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On Monday 12 September 2011 13:44:15, Abhijit Halder wrote:

> in GDB we can do this to define a debugger variable:
> (gdb) set $var
> 
> The $var is a scalar variable. Can we define similarly an array?

(gdb) set $var1 = {0, 1}
(gdb) ptype $var1
type = int [2]
(gdb) p $var1
$1 = {0, 1}

(gdb) set $var2 = (char[2]) {0, 1}
(gdb) ptype $var2
type = char [2]
(gdb) p $var2
$2 = "\000\001"

-- 
Pedro Alves