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Re: Debugging support - Re: g77 features lacking in gfortran - PR19292


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


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