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I need a way to have gdb like output for a pointer to a structure which shows all the fields and its addresses and the corresponding values. Is there a clean way to do this instead of printing it member by member. I cannot use any other external tool like pstruct or libgdb. I want to do it from within our C program. I do have gdb on the system and can use it. Thanks for your time.
Your options are:
a) Read the debug symbols from binary and interpret them in the same way as GDB does to determine what the structure members are, and pass that info to a generalized printing routine.
b) Compile metadata about your structures into your C program, either manually or with a custom build stage.
c) Print member by member.