Inspecting memory address contents in GDB

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 09 2023, Jonny Grant wrote:

> Hi
> Pasting some output lines from a core dump gdb session below.
> I noticed after "x/8c" the line seems stuck in ASCII mode. So when I do "x/8b" it doesn't go back to output in hex, is that expected?

>From help x:

    Defaults for format and size letters are those previously used.
    Default count is 1.  Default address is following last thing printed
    with this command or "print".

'c' is a format, 'b' is a size letter.  Each one will independently
remain in effect until a different format and size, resp., is used.

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