Implementing FORTRAN77 support in the GNU gdb debugger

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Implementing FORTRAN77 support in the GNU gdb debugger

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 30 , Issue 5 (May 1995) table of contents

Pages: 29 - 36

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0362-1340

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Farooq Butt

Compiler & Tools Group, RISC Software, 6501 William Cannon Dr. W. MD:OE112, Austin, TX

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Commercially available source-level debuggers in the Unix world often shortchange FORTRAN77 users. While C and C++ are usually well-supported languages, FORTRAN77 has not been given the attention it deserves. Given the current interest in performance-measurement via the popular SPEC benchmarks (many of which are coded in FORTRAN77) as well as the large installed-base of mathematical/scientific FORTRAN77 software, it is imperative for system software vendors to provide FORTRAN77 users with the same sort of fast, effective and powerful source-level debugging environment that C and C++ users enjoy. This paper details the addition of FORTRAN77 features to the GNU gdb[2] debugger in order to better support users of the highly-optimizing Motorola PowerPC¹ mf77 compiler. These FORTRAN77 features currently (as of version 4.10) only target the native PowerPC mf77 compiler distributed by Motorola.

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