gdb bug in Fortran langauge mode

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.SGI.3.96.990615233907.730A-100000@maxwell.la.asu.edu >you wri
te:
  > it on an RS6K, using the XLF compiler.  'objdump --syms badsym.o'
  > produces:
One could just as easily claim the XLF compiler is backwards.  

  > Craig notes that the 'whatis' command of gdb produces the correct
  > result.  This is because gdb's 'whatis' command is buggy-- it prints
  > the array elements in the wrong order!
Not necessarily.

  > To resolve the problem, I ran gdb on a program compiled by IBM's XLF
  > compiler.  The array printing works fine and the 'whatis' was backwards. 
  > On an i86 with g77, the array printing doesn't work and 'whatis' does. 
  > 
  > The answer is that gcc/g77 is emitting the debug info for array elements
  > in the wrong order.  The reason the 'whatis' works on a g77 program is
  > because things are reversed twice. 
No, if you read the earlier messages, I think you'll find that folks here
think that that the order is correct.

jeff