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Say I have attached gdb to a process and within the its memory layout there is a file and line number which I would like the memory address of. How can I get the memory address of line n in file x? This is on Linux x86.

Bhubhu Hbuhdbus
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  • More or less a duplicate of [gdb disassemble by line number](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11285932/gdb-disassemble-by-line-number) - the answer to that question is a perfectly good answer to this one as well. –  Jul 02 '12 at 03:25

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(gdb) info line test.c:56
Line 56 of "test.c" starts at address 0x4005ae <main+37>
   and ends at 0x4005ba <main+49>.

additionally with python you may be able to use the 'last' attribute from Symbol-Tables-In-Python this currently requires a very recent version of gdb from cvs, but i imagine will have general availability in 7.5

(gdb) py x = gdb.find_pc_line(gdb.decode_line("test.c:56")[1][0].pc); gdb.execute("p/x " + str(x.pc)); gdb.execute("p/x " + str(x.last))
$15 = 0x4005ae
$16 = 0x4005b9
matt
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