From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
To: Arijit Das <arijit79@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How to portably print out Env of a Process
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060523125622.GA15393@brasko.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f3d30900605222046t810dd4cue180cba7b0541fa7@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:16:42AM +0530, Arijit Das wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to print out the env of a process portably with the
> same cmdline/script in different os/arch combinations?
>
> Here is how I tried to do it for i686 - RH3.0:
>
> (gdb) p (char *) getenv("HOME")
> [Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 17639)]
> $1 = 0xdffff781 "/remote/vtghome7/arijit"
> (gdb)
>
> It worked fine.
>
> But when I tried executing this command in x86_64, I got strange results:
>
> (gdb) p (char *) getenv("HOME")
> [Switching to Thread 182901576896 (LWP 26427)]
> $1 = 0xffffffffbfffc790 <Address 0xffffffffbfffc790 out of bounds>
> (gdb)
>
> I guess some kind of 32/64 bits conversion might be messing things up
> here....but am not sure exactly what? Any help here?
How about, 'shell echo $HOME'?
Bob Rossi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-23 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 13:05 Arijit Das
2006-05-23 18:32 ` Bob Rossi [this message]
2006-05-23 22:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-24 9:16 ` Arijit Das
2006-07-12 16:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-17 20:00 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-12 16:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-16 16:48 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-17 0:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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