Dereferencing a pointer in winedbg

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Monday, November 28, 2005, 2:33:35 PM, Eric Pouech wrote:
> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
>> Sunday, November 27, 2005, 10:50:39 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>> 
>>>On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:35:15PM -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is it possible to dereference a pointer in winedbg? Help says that
>>>>"*$eax" is a valid expression. But when I'm trying to use it it saying:
>>>>Wine-dbg>p *$eax
>>>>No type or type mismatch
>>>>
>>>>Is there are a way to do this?
>>>
>>>(x aka examine memory)
>>>
>>>x $eax
>>>
>>>Ciao, Marcus
>> 
>> 
>> Well I need to add that to display. Something like: display/x *$eax
>> Doing x $eax and then x <result> 100s times kind of hard.

> display /x means (in gdb) formatting differently the output, not 
> dereferencing the (so called) pointer (display is a repeated 'p' 
> command, not a 'x' one).
Yes I know. I meant /x for hex not decimal.

> what you'd need is support for type casts and use something like:
> display *(int*)$eax
Yes correct. That's exactly what I need.

> I sent a couple of months ago a patch for winedbg that (partly) 
> implemented the support for typecasts in wine. You should look for it.
Could you please point me to it? I've spent last hour or so trying to
find it.

Vitaliy.