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Top Forums Programming finding stack location in C using program Post 302093630 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 21st of October 2006 08:42:29 AM
Old 10-21-2006
Debuggers like gdb (assuming you are on Linux) will show you all of the stack in either a core dump or a running program.

If you are on Linux, the source code for va_start() and va_arg() (part of stdarg.h) will show you how to walk the current stack frame. The same is true for other compilers that are open source. Note that each implmentation of this is specific to the hardware it runs on. There is no "general" solution.


/proc/<pid>/maps is very much your friend as Corona says...
 

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