Examining Variables

While a stack trace may contain enough information to fully represent the state of your program, you may need to see the values of more variables. The print command evaluates an expression and prints the value according to the type of the expression. The following example shows several simple C expressions:

(dbx) print msg
msg = 0x20a84 "Hello world"
(dbx) print msg[0]
msg[0] = ’h’
(dbx) print *msg
*msg = ’h’
(dbx) print &msg
&msg = 0xefffe8b4

You can track when the values of variables and expressions change using data change breakpoints (see Setting Data Change Breakpoints). For example, to stop execution when the value of the variable count changes, type:

(dbx) stop change count