Thread: viewing declared struct objects using gdb

lets say I have a program resembling:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
struct blah
{
	int id;
	char* user;
};

int main()
{
	struct blah mystrct;
	mystrct.id = 1;
	mystrct.user = "hi there\n";
	fprintf(stdout,mystrct.user);
	return 0;
}

And I am trying to debug this with GDB, how could I view the variable
mystrct.user or mystrc.id
assuming I have a breakpoint at fprintf.
when typing print mystrct or mystrct.user it says cannot view struct objects or something.
Would I have to pick apart the stack?

-LC

err
hehehe-
^_^

Turns out that the part I was trying to debug wouldn't have helped anyway, I did this stupid thing earlier which caused a seg-fault:

Code:

fp = fopen("somefile.txt","rw");
fprintf(fp,"blah");
fclose(fp);

ooh boy, that was fun, I thought the whole time it was with a struct's string and a buffer overflow...
I can't believe I made that mistake either, but thanks for the help, I'll use that when I need to. But, I couldn't find out how to display members of a struct. Oh well-

-LC