Why gdb casting is not working?

Question

I use print (CEthPacket*) 0xeb609a0 to examine an object at the given address and get A syntax error in expression, near \') 0xeb609a0\'.

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Answer 1

I just ran into a very similar error. It was caused because I was trying to reference an object that is not defined in the scope of the current stack frame. Try changing to a stack frame where the CEthrPacket object is defined.