Searching for pattern in memory from GDB?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:41:22PM -0500, James Nordby wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to put together a fast, internal-circular-buffer-type tracing
> package.  I want to get able to extract the traces from either a running
> program or a core file, but our binaries are normally sent out stripped.
> I thought if I put a word or two with a particular pattern at the
> beginning
> of the trace buffer, I could look for that with gdb and use gdb to
> format
> the rest of the buffer.
> 
> Do you know of any way to say 'search for pattern in <BSS,heap> space'
> in gdb?
> 
> If not, can you think of any other way to find a buffer in a stripped
> binary?

Nope.  There's no command like this at the moment.  I'd appreciate it
if you filed an enhancement request in the GDB GNATS system about this:
  http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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