Information Technology Reference
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FIGURE 15.16
Creating and using a watchpoint
Viewing and editing memory
You can use the View Memory of… option in the menu to display a hex memory dump, as shown in Figure
15.17. The dump appears in the editor area and starts with the address of the selected variable. You can rear-
range the display to show various byte groupings and dump lengths. Hex dumps can be useful when working
with text or with byte-level buffers. But unless you can read raw hexadecimal and convert it to code in your
head, other applications are limited.
The display includes an editor, and you can edit, insert, or delete individual bytes by hand. This is a powerful
but dangerous low-level feature. Used indiscriminately, it can destroy a build, but it is sometimes useful to
tweak byte-level features for testing.
FIGURE 15.17
Viewing and editing raw hex in memory
