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Created December 4, 2013 07:27
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Breakpoint for gdb, breaks when a string containing "your string" is printed to stderr. Useful for breaking on errors that could come from anywhere.
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$ gdb break write if 2 == *(int*)($esp + 4) && strstr((char*)*(int*)($esp + 8), "your string") != 0
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Unfortnutately not on an ubuntu 16.04 server (intel) with gdb 8.2

Error in testing breakpoint condition:
Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffd3cc

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