Re: [photran] gdb crashes under Linux

[Michel DEVEL <michel.devel@xxxxxxxx>]

Title: sincerely_yours.txt

Le 04/04/2012 12:13, Fabian Wein a écrit :

Hello,

I'm actually a C++ developer but have to work with FORTRAN 77 for a project.

I have the most current eclipse stuff. gcc is 4.5.1,

The debugger tends to exit with -1. With gdb (GDB) SUSE (7.2-3.3) from Suse 11.1
I could not proceed from the first breakpoint.

I upgraded gdb to gdb (GDB) SUSE (7.4.50.20120120-79.1) and now it works better,
but all of a sudden gdb exits before.

Hello,

I have been using photran on opensuse (and Windows) for several years (currently opensuse 12.1 and gdb 7.3-41.1.2).
The link with gdb has always been the weakest point of photran for me, since I have never been able to use it really predictably although I only have crashes when I want to see the content of some arrays (not the case for others arrays).
In an old thread on this list http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/photran/msg01509.html), you can find the following sentence by Greg Watson (Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010):

"Photran does not provide its own debugger, but rather relies on the CDT debugger which is designed for sequential C/C++ programs. This is why debugging Fortran programs is often problematic. Unfortunately this is likely to remain the case until someone either improves the CDT debugger to work better with Photran, or creates a Fortran debugger for Photran."

It seems to me, it is still the case...

PS: Another annoying "feature" for debugging purposes is that when you execute a code, most of the time, printouts do not appear in the "console" tab when they are executed, but only at the end of the execution.

PS2: you may find more help in http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/tasks/cdt_o_run.htm

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Sincerely yours,

Michel DEVEL