[ale] debugging FORTRAN

[Lisa Chiang]

ALE'rs:

I have some questions about gdb and FORTRAN.  Since g77 seems to be a FORTRAN
to C converter (right?), how do you get gdb to debug FORTRAN natively? I
downloaded the gdb manual and I must admit that I'm confused.

For example, I tried "show symbols" on my FORTRAN executable and all I see are
C symbols.  I seems that I can't load a source FORTRAN file and debug it like
you would a C program.

At this point I'm porting a large VMS VAX FORTRAN code to g77 but if I can't get
gdb to work with FORTRAN, I may just have to rewrite it in C which will take
some time.  Any suggestions? Thanks.


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Lisa Chiang
gt6492d at gatech.campuscwix.net
Georgia Institute of Technology