Thread: displaying stack contents

hi

i thought it would be funny to see what the stack looks like in general so i prorgammed something that shows it in a very rough way.
that code took me less than 5 minutes, so dont blame me for it.
maybe you know how to make it better?

Code:

/* ever wondered what your stack may look like? */

#include <stdio.h>

/* uncomment lines to log to a file called \'memlog\' */

int main (void)
{
    //FILE *fd;
    char buffer[] = "this is a test!\n";
    int i;
    
    /*
    if(((fd = fopen("memlog", "a"))) == 0){
	exit(1);
    }
    */
    
    for(i=0;i<20000;i++){
	printf("%p\t%c\n", &buffer[i], buffer[i]);
	//fprintf(fd, "%p\t%c\n", &buffer[i], buffer[i]);
    }
    
    //fclose(fd);
    
    return 0;
}

thanks

Originally posted by vVv
Oh boy...
This is the most useless snippet I've seen for a long time. It buys nothing and makes very poor assumptions about memory mapping (this would dump core with SIGBUS/SIGSEGV on many systems). My advice: Throw this trash away and use gdb if you want to see useful stack traces.

oh boy, ok.