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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
To: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Inspecting environment variables from a core   dump?
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <102a959df9a18135271bc2ddd5ae9eb1@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vcy9p7pv.fsf@igel.home>


Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
>> Does a core dump contain the environment of the program that dumped
core?
> 
> A core dump contains the whole used address space of the program, and
> the environment is of course part of it.
> 
>> If so, how can I inspect the environment variables?
> 
> The environment is always stored in the variable environ.

Thanks but:

(gdb) p environ
$13 = 0
(gdb) whatis environ
type = <data variable, no debug info>

Am I simply out of luck or doing something wrong?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20  9:37 Ludovic Brenta
2011-04-20  9:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-20 12:28   ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2011-05-08  8:05     ` Paul Pluzhnikov

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