[ILUG] gdb question

[Greg Farrell]

In case anyone's interested in the end I did the following:

Set my gnome terminals scroll back buffer to humongous values
set pagination no 	(turns off page breaks in display)
x /32701db pMessage 	(display 32701 b(ytes) in d(ecimal) format from
 			address of pMessage)
Copy and paste the resulting output in c/p buffer size chunks to a.txt
			 file.
cut -c 17- a.txt 	(to strip off the non data junk at the start of
			 the lines)

Then write a small python script to read in all these decimal values and
dump them out as a character string.

Tadaa! Now someone please tell me the one line command that would have
made all this unnecessary so i can go bang my head on the keyboard :)

    Greg

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 12:11 +0000, Greg Farrell wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
>    I have a core dump with a > 32k string variable. I can view it in gdb
> but I don't know how to output it to a file. I tried turning off the
> pagination and copied/pasted it as a quick workaround but the result was
> not the correct length, I'd guess tab's became spaces or some such.
> 
>    Can anyone tell me how to dump a variable to a file? I have tried
> google, but searching for keywords like dump and output and file in
> relation to gdb doesn't give the meaning I'm looking for :)
> 
>    Greg
>