how to use gdb to explore the stack/heap?

Question

Could anyone please give me a quick overview/point me to documentation of a way to inspect the stack (and heap?) of a C program? I thought this should be done with GDB, but if t

Answer 1

View stack: gdb> backtrace

View current stack frame: gdb> info frame

View arguments of current stack frame: gdb> info args

View local variable of current stack frame: gdb> info locals

Navigate to parent stack frame: gdb> frame 1

Examining the Stack