ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

C++ APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
You can use the formatting symbols shown in the following table to format the
contents of memory locations.
You can apply formatting symbols to structures,
arrays, pointers, and objects as unexpanded
variables only. If you expand the variable, the
specified formatting affects all members. You
cannot apply formatting symbols to individual
members.
Symbol
ma
m
mb
mw
Format
64 ASCII characters
16 bytes in hex, followed by 16 ASCII
characters
16 bytes in hex, followed by 16 ASCII
characters
8 words
Value
0x0012ffac
.4...0...".0W&..
.....1W&.0.:W..1
...."..1.JO&.1.2
.."..1...0y....1
0x0012ffac
B3 34 CB 00 84 30 94 80
FF 22 8A 30 57 26 00 00 .4...0....".0W&..
0x0012ffac
B3 34 CB 00 84 30 94 80
FF 22 8A 30 57 26 00 00 .4...0...".0W&..
0x0012ffac
34B3 00CB 3084 8094
22FF 308A 2657 0000
md
4 double-words
0x0012ffac
00CB34B3 80943084 308A22FF 00002657
mu
2-byte characters (Unicode)
0x0012fc60
8478 77f4 ffff ffff
0000 0000 0000 0000
With the memory location formatting symbols, you can type any value or expression
that evaluates to a location. To display the value of a character array as a
string, precede the array name with an ampersand, &yourname. A formatting
character can also follow an expression:
• rep+1,x
• alps[0],mb
• xloc,g
• count,d
To watch the value at an address or the value pointed to by a register, use the BY,
WO, or DW operator:
• BY returns the contents of the byte pointed at.
• WO returns the contents of the word pointed at.
• DW returns the contents of the doubleword pointed at.
Follow the operator with a variable, register, or constant. If the BY, WO, or DW
operator is followed by a variable, then the environment watches the byte, word,
or doubleword at the address contained in the variable.
You can also use the context operator { } to display the contents of any location.
To display a Unicode string in the Watch window or the QuickWatch dialog box,
use the su format specifier. To display data bytes with Unicode characters in the
Watch window or the QuickWatch dialog box, use the mu format specifier.
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