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Re: Debugging support - Re: g77 features lacking in gfortran - PR19292
- From: Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>
- To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc at cn dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>,Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>,"'fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:59:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: Debugging support - Re: g77 features lacking in gfortran - PR19292
- References: <4359D8DA.10003@wanadoo.fr> <20051022233015.GA6615@meiner.onlinehome.de> <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510251357330.17274@linux.site>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:18:33PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> GDB also has some other problems while working with gfortran, such as the
> printing of one-dimensional array, function evaluation, handling of common
> block variable and so on...
... variables from modules (I've just reported this as PR 24526),
allocatable arrays (PR 17905) and so on.
>
> Some of these problems stems from the DWARF output of gfortran, some lies
> in the code of gdb, some might involve both. I has been working on some
> of these problem at gdb's side. I am now thinking of whether there are
> any specific requirement from gfortran community for GDB. Did any of you
> have a big picture about how well gdb work with gfortran? Did you
> have a list of things that want GDB to support first?
My (personal) vote would go to supporting arrays (one- and
multidimensional) (PR 22244) should be pretty hight on the list,
followed by variables in common blocks (PR 23057).
Any help you can provide is certainly very welcome!
Thomas