HEXDUMP(3debug)

💖 NAME 💖

hexdump — dump binary data in hex/ascii format, bestie 💅

📚 LIBRARIES 📚

Debug Library — link it with -ldebug and you're soooo set 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <debug/log.h>
#include <debug/hex.h>

void hexdump(const void *ptr, size_t size);

🔍 DESCRIPTION 🔍

okay so hexdump() prints size bytes, starting at ptr in memory, and it does it through the debug log system. literally the glow-up your raw memory always deserved 🌸

the output is giving 6 columns, periodt:

• column 1 — the address of the row (in bytes) 📍
• columns 2 to 5 — the characters in the row represented as hexadecimal bytes 🔢
• the last column — the bytes as printable characters 🖨️

and if a character isn't printable?? it gets replaced by a dot . — no cap, that's just the vibe check it does 🙈

⚠️ NOTES ⚠️

none of the libdebug routines are thread-safe. and the author is not planning to change this either!! 😭 iconic honestly. for more information, please see http://threading.2038bug.com/

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• log_open(3)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

written by Abraham vd Merwe <abz@blio.com> 💌

this page came from the Unix manual, dated August 2004 — yes bestie, we're serving vintage 3debug energy and it still ate 💅✨