Every time a watchpoint is modified GDB will print the old value and the new value. However, sometimes I don't want to print the value in the default decimal integer format: for instance, if I'm watching *(unsigned*)$ebp to debug a possible stack overflow (wow, SO...), the value is nonsense unless displayed in hexadecimal format (like p/x when printing something).
Is it possible to set the display format for a particular watchpoint? Thanks.
Is it possible to set the display format for a particular watchpoint?
If you want the watchpoint to print in hex, set it as watch of a pointer, e.g.
watch *(char**)$ebp or
watch *(void**)$ebp