Question

For example,

structure S{
int a;
int *b;
}s;

//now when I try to check the values stored…

s->a = ?
s->b[0] = ?
s->b[1] = ?

.. and so on

How do I “add watch” or use any other technique to check the values? Please let me know. Thanks.

Answer 1

It sounds like you have a value of type S* that you want to inspect in the debugger. The easiest way to do this is simply type the expression which produces the value into the watch window. So for example if you have a local named pValue simply

• Open the Watch Window
• Type ‘pValue’ into one of the rows
• Expand to see the contents

The tricky part is seeing all of the values in S::b as it will be displayed as a single pointer vs. an array. In order to see the value as an array you just need to tell the debugger how many elements there are. For example if there were 5 elements you could type the following into the watch window

pValue->b,5

Expanding that will show you the first 5 int values in pValue->b