How can one see content of stack with GDB?

Question

I am new to GDB, so I have some questions:

• How can I look at content of the stack? Example: to see content of register, I type info registers.

Answer 1

You need to use gdb's memory-display commands. The basic one is x, for examine. There's an example on the linked-to page that uses

gdb> x/4xw $sp

to print "four words (w ) of memory above the stack pointer (here, $sp) in hexadecimal (x)". The quotation is slightly paraphrased.