Am 06. Feb, 2001 schwäzte Kevin Buettner so: Kevin, you're posts are just *too* cool! :) Now since I don't use debuggers other than those that have been blessed by Linus, e.g. print statements :), I don't know the intricacies of gdb. Since you're basically throwing it a line of code in a command line type of way it seems like you kind of have a shell for c/c++ and whatever else gdb understands. Is that somewhat correct? If so, can you toss it a few lines of code, specifically a loop or other control block to test it out. Sort of like a "for i in ..." construct from a shell command line? Can you include files, then run stuff? I'm starting to look at c stuff again ( that's what I'm planning for my spare nano-second this year ;-), so if I could do some of those stupid shell tricks from a c 'command line' I could practice doing them in c :). ciao, der.hans > On Feb 6, 6:03pm, Lucas Vogel wrote: > > > I'm looking for a program that will take either a decimal, hex or octal > > input and give me its decimal, hex or octal output. Can anyone tell me what > > I'm looking for? > > Like others who've answered, the first thing I thought of was > Perl... > > saguaro:kev$ perl -e 'printf "%x\n", 42' > 2a > saguaro:kev$ perl -e 'printf "%d\n", 0x2a' > 42 > saguaro:kev$ perl -e 'printf "%o\n", 0x2a' > 52 > saguaro:kev$ perl -e 'printf "%d\n", 052' > 42 > > But gdb works good for this purpose too... > > saguaro:kev$ gdb > GNU gdb 5.0 > [...] > (gdb) print/x 42 > $1 = 0x2a > (gdb) print 0x2a > $2 = 42 > (gdb) print/o 0x2a > $3 = 052 > (gdb) print 052 > $4 = 42 > (gdb) > > gdb makes a pretty good calculator too... > > (gdb) print/x 6*7 > $5 = 0x2a > (gdb) print $5/7 > $6 = 6 > (gdb) print $5+$6 > $7 = 48 > > And for you C/C++ programmers out there... > > (gdb) print &((int *) 0)[4] > $8 = (int *) 0x10 > (gdb) print/d &((int *) 0)[4] > $9 = 16 > > (This'd be the byte offset of the fourth element in an int array. Of > course, the results are target dependent.) > > Kevin > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.YourCompanyHere.net ;-) # Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg und keiner geht hin...