Find the exact address of variable Buf

Question

As reference, I\'m using the following code:

#include 
#include 

int main (void) {
    char buf[100]; // ------> How do I find         


        

Answer 1

If you enter the following into gdb, you'll get the address:

start
p &buf

as in the following transcript:

pax$ gdb ./qq.exe
GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special)
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) start
Breakpoint 1 at 0x401144: file qq.c, line 2.
Starting program: /home/pax/qq.exe
[New thread 2912.0xf9c]
[New thread 2912.0x518]
main () at qq.c:2
2       int main (int argc, char **argv) {
(gdb) p &buf
$1 = (char (*)[100]) 0x22ccd0
(gdb)