WTF, gdb?

Why the fuck is it so absolutely convoluted just to get it to display a standard 16 byte + ASCII hexdump of what's in memory at a particular address, unlike almost every other debugger out there?

>>38

>>37 is poking fun at >>29's hexdump format.  16 bytes per line with the dash in the middle is the classic MS DEBUG style (goes back to CP/M I think).

x is fine as long as you know what you're looking at (bytes, words, ASCII chars) beforehand.  For wild and crazy shit, though, you're going to want to reach for IDA...