Why gdb casting is not working?

Question

I use print (CEthPacket*) 0xeb609a0 to examine an object at the given address and get A syntax error in expression, near \') 0xeb609a0\'.

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Answer 1

I just ran in to similar issue, and, from a colleague of mine, I learnt that you need to provide the namespace that the class belongs to within a single quotes as following:

(gdb) p ('MyScope::MyClass'*) ptr;