On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:02, Aleksandar Donev wrote:
> David LaFrance-Linden wrote:
> > Does each vendor supply their own debugger, or does the Fortran
> > community generally not use debuggers (resorting to print statements)?
>
> All compilers I use supply their own debugger (which may be on top of gdb).
>
> Part of the problem is that there are Fortran 90 concepts which have no
> implementation standard. For example, the array descriptor is
> compiler-specific. So if you want to debug and look into an array pointer
> to see the address field or the size field or whatever, there cannot be a
> universal way to do this. I am not a vendor and am not sure if vendors
> would at all be willing to release that kind of info into the public
> domain...
>
> Aleks
http://gdbf95.sourceforge.net/
Is this your example of the adverse consequences of such public releases?
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Tim Prince
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