Print a struct in C

Question

I am trying to print a struct that is coming as an argument in a function in order to do some debugging.

Is there anyway I could print a structure's contents without knowing what it looks like, i.e. without printing each field explicitly? You see, depending on loads of different #defines the structure may look very differently, i.e. may have or not have different fields, so I'd like to find an easy way to do something like print_structure(my_structure).

NetBeans' debugger can do that for me, but unfortunately the code is running on a device I can't run a debugger on.

Any ideas? I suppose it's not possible, but at least there may be some macro to do that at compilation time or something?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can always do a hex dump of the structure:

#define PRINT_OPAQUE_STRUCT(p)  print_mem((p), sizeof(*(p)))  void print_mem(void const *vp, size_t n) {     unsigned char const *p = vp;     for (size_t i=0; i<n; i++)         printf("%02x\n", p[i]);     putchar('\n'); };