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

Thomas Koenig
2005-10-25T19:59:14Z

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