From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199807102026.WAA04313@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: info core dumps
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 22:26:33 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980708115058.5286O-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Jul 8, 98 11:51:21 am"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > How can I see what the info is set for a certain segment in gdb? I
> > mean "p $ds" shows me what %ds is set to, but not it's base and
> > limit?
> > Another question: "p *$eax" (or perhaps it was "p *($eax)") let me
> > look at the contents at the address %eax points to, but what command
> > lets me look at the contents at the address %gs:%eax?
> 
> If you mean to access data in segment other than DS, then you can't do
> that in GDB directly.  You need to call a C function like dosmemget
> for that, assuming that it's linked into the debugged program.
> 
> The same goes for selector data: call the appropriate C function from
> the GDB prompt.

Hmm. But how do I get the base address as that function expects an
argument of type 'int *'?

Another question, suppose ds's base address is 0x1000 and edx is
0x100, is the address edx points to 0x100 or 0x1100?


Yes, Open Your Eyes,

							MartinS