On 15 Oct 08, at 09:23, David Springer wrote:
Folks,
I am looking into some legacy code that is called from a third-party
library.  The function being called has this signature:

AStringClass PlatformSpecificImplClass::formatMessage(unsigned int code,
va_list* argList)

The problem is that on x86 platforms, |argList| seems to point to a valid
4-byte unicode string "(null)", but on PPC, this string appears to be
garbled. I say "appears to be" because I can't actually tell, since in Xcode I have no visibility into |argList|. Is there a way I can examine the
contents of this pointer?

va_list is generally treated as an opaque type (it's defined in stdarg.h). If you know exactly how it's laid out, you can try something like

(gdb) x/4x argList

but don't assume anything about its layout outside a debugging context.
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