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From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
To: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, fortran@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: fortran character strings in common blocks
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508030200400.17777@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050802161249.EBE801DC06D@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    Is gdb supposed to be able to print the values of character strings
> that belong to COMMON blocks? I find that a character string declared as...
> 
>       PARAMETER    (COMMAX=132)
>       CHARACTER*(COMMAX) COMLYN
> 
>       COMMON /CCOMND/ COMLYN
> 
> that I get an error...
> 
> (gdb) print COMLYN
> No symbol "COMLYN" in current context.
> 
> even though I can assign this character string to
> a locally declared character string (not in a 
> COMMON block) and then print this string with gdb.
> Thanks in advance for any clarifications on this issue.
>            Jack
> ps This is with gfortran from the current gcc 4.0 branch.
> 

The reason is that gfortran treats common blocks as structure.  So gdb 
can't handle it at this time.  gdb expects it treated as 
DW_TAG_common_block.  I ever opened a bug on this at GCC bugzilla:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057

Hope that gfortran community could handle this in a near future.

Regards
- Wu Zhou

 


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2005-08-02 16:16 Jack Howarth
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