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| <h2 class="chapter">15 Using <small>GDB</small> with Different Languages</h2> |
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| <p>Although programming languages generally have common aspects, they are |
| rarely expressed in the same manner. For instance, in ANSI C, |
| dereferencing a pointer <code>p</code> is accomplished by <code>*p</code>, but in |
| Modula-2, it is accomplished by <code>p^</code>. Values can also be |
| represented (and displayed) differently. Hex numbers in C appear as |
| ‘<samp>0x1ae</samp>’, while in Modula-2 they appear as ‘<samp>1AEH</samp>’. |
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| <p>Language-specific information is built into <small>GDB</small> for some languages, |
| allowing you to express operations like the above in your program’s |
| native language, and allowing <small>GDB</small> to output values in a manner |
| consistent with the syntax of your program’s native language. The |
| language you use to build expressions is called the <em>working |
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