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[jwxie518]

Professor gave us a challenge. He said the following (LOL fine.. paraphrased)

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Suppose you have the following C++ statement:
c = a + b;
I don't care what u put for a and b.
a = 10, b = 200; I don't care.

I want you guys to be able to tell me the address of c, and in essence you can find the value before a+b and after a+b;
I don't want you to use cout. No printing on the screen. NO. This mean no reference, no pointer.

Now the problem is: I have never done any memory dump. I have linux by the way.
I was reading about hex dump (Hex dump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Anyone can think of a good approach?

Thanks.

[Alexander]

I am unsure of what he is looking for, however to point you in the right direction (yours at least) a hex editor would be hard to use.

For example, how could you find (so incredibly quickly) what value (among millions) relates to the integer c, and note what it contains before it is (nearly instantaneously) changed?

Try to guess at what software tool can track execution and track memory.

[WingedPanther]

You could use a debugger to get the current location of c in memory while it's running.

[dargueta]

"[...] no reference, no pointer." Sounds like a register thing to me.