While I don't particularly like how gdb does this either, you can: * "set print pretty on" , this makes structs readable * "x/20b &var" to show a hex dump. Bu

While I don't particularly like how gdb does this either, you can: * "set print pretty on" , this makes structs readable * "x/20b &var" to show a hex dump. But no ASCII, and you have to give it the count (e.g. 20 bytes..)