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Re: Request for status on fix for limitations with g77 -fdebug_kludge option
- To: Larry Cohen <Larry dot J dot Cohen at saic dot com>
- Subject: Re: Request for status on fix for limitations with g77 -fdebug_kludge option
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:57:14 +1000
- CC: help-gcc at gnu dot org, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <002d01bfc4b8$b0343020$1b2731cc@FWB.SAIC.Com>
Larry Cohen wrote:
>
> To Whom It May Concern;
>
> I have recently downloaded and installed gcc-2.95.2 and gdb-5.0 packages
> for the purposes of compiling and running FORTRAN-77 programs. The gcc
> package documentation states that gdb is currently incapable of printing
> out the values of variables that are part of COMMON BLOCK storage and
> that rudimentary COMMON BLOCK variable information could be retrieved
> within gdb by invoking the -fdebug-kludge option during the g77 compile
> process. Also, the documentation states that this limitation in
> printing out the explicit value of a COMMON BLOCK variable will be fixed
> in some future release of gcc and gdb. Would you please send me any
> information about when these future gcc and gdb releases (that print out
> the value of a COMMON BLOCK variable) will occur.
FYI,
At present there is no active Fortran GDB maintainer and effectivly zero
activity on GDB's support for fortran :-(
Definitly an oportunity in the making for anyone interested.
Andrew