Re: gdb and Fortran90 arrays

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-01T21:11:19Z

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:09:04PM -0500, Parker James E Contr AFRL/HEDR wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could help me decipher the output from gdb when
> debugging Fortran90 code. Since gdb doesn't currently support Fortran90, it
> defaults to a language format called "minimal", which is fine for most uses,
> but for arrays the output is cryptic for me.

Have you tried using CVS, and explicitly setting the language to
fortran?

> And you get a list that contains an offset, ecode, base and info. Can
> anyone tell me what these things are? Ecode seems to represent the size of
> each element in the array, but that's just a guess. The rest is some sort
> of memory pointer, but I can't decipher it.

Probably depends on your compiler; you didn't say which? They may be
able to tell you more.

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