From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6448 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2003 17:54:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6177 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2003 17:53:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duracef.shout.net) (204.253.184.12) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 13 Jan 2003 17:53:59 -0000 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0DHrfm17574; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:53:41 -0600 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:54:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200301131753.h0DHrfm17574@duracef.shout.net> To: david@streamline-computing.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Patches to improve Fortran support Cc: ac131313@redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00487.txt.bz2 Hi David, > This solves a pretty major problem where an array is passed as a > parameter to a function with an underspecified dimension (ie. real > (10:*) ) because the * is translated to '-1' which then completely > screws up the allocation of memory. This is great, we have a longstanding PR on this: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&database=gdb&pr=3 gdb segfaults associated with FORTRAN (g77) array arguments I can review this patch later this week (Wednesday or Thursday). Someone else might be able to get to it before then. Do you have a copyright assignment on file with the Free Software Foundation? Andrew C, do you think that this patch is big enough that an assignment is needed? Michael C