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    John> ALErs - I'm debugging a Linux application with gdb running
    John> under emacs. My application receives JPEG images that it
    John> caches in dynamically allocated storage, telling me what it
    John> got, as in: Breakpoint 2, CINet::PostImg(int, int, lbuf)
    John> (this=0x805fa00, i=7, type=2, lBuf= {len = 9685, buf =
    John> 0x80d1a08 "????"}) at INet.cpp:435

    John> I would like to write that 9685-byte block at 0x80d1a0a to a
    John> file and look at it with a JPEG viewer. I haven't been able
    John> to find a promising command combination for emacs and/or gbd
    John> to write off a binary block like that, although it seems a
    John> reasonable thing to need sometimes.

Not directly a gdb command, but if you wrote a friend dump_to_file
function that took a path as an argument you should be able to call
that from gdb interactively (friend int dump_to_file( CINet::PostImg
*); then call it with dump_to_file( this ) or the like).

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