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Fernando Nasser wrote: > > But how is it possible that GDB needs malloc() when the target does not have it? (gdb) p strlen("foobar") The string itself needs to be in the target's memory, so you can give the function a pointer to it. malloc() is a convenient default way to acquire the space, then GDB copies in the string's contents. Stan
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