Question

Is there any platform independent way of dumping the variables created by your program onto a screen? say i write the program

#include <iostream>

void f(){
    std::string interal_data = "hello world";
}

int main(){
    f();
}

is there any way to get internal_data out without adding a std::cout/std::stream to f()? i want to output all of the data from my program, which is quite big, and i dont want to go to every other line and place a std::cout. how do debuggers do it?

im looking for ways to do this in c++

Answer 1

Ehm… “without adding a std::cout/std::stream” is nonsense, if you want to output something, just do it. Debuggers work with magic, namely inspect your process and stuff, and have debugging symbols for your process which you do not have.

Edit: Of course, this may only be true for C++, as Python is a somewhat interpreted language, so you might pull it off with that. As I have no experience whatsoever with Python, I can’t comment on that though. 🙂