Problems using GDB

[Stephen Bespalko]

I have been in contact with Jan Kratochvil (of redhat) to discuss whether working on the architectural issues in GDB that prevent him from releasing the implementation of many fortran language constructs (most noteworthy is variable length arrays) is appropriate and helpful. It appears so.

I've worked on similar issues with the ada language support a decade ago - so there is some expectation that, if time permits, that I can make progress… Jan has offered to review plans and code, which greatly improves the odds of success.

Sincerely,
Stephen Bespalko

On Nov 19, 2012, at 2:39 PM, "N.M. Maclaren" <nmm1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Nov 19 2012, John Chludzinski wrote:
>> 
>> This is a very large system of code.  Here's a small example of what
>> I'm talking about:
> 
> Being someone who taught himself how to debug code before there were such
> things as debuggers, and having used and supported environments in which
> debuggers were not available, I rarely use them.  Here is a pointer to
> the course I give on that topic:
> 
>   http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/Debugging
> 
> gdb is not the best debugger I have used, but it is better than average,
> and it is not realistic to expect debuggers to be the answer on anything
> more than relatively simple student code.  Even if it were updated to
> solve this problem, another problem would take its place.
> 
> This is not the answer you wanted, but comes from 40+ years experience
> using dozens of different systems.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.
>