Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: net.lang.f77 Subject: Re: How Do You Debug Your F77 Programs? Message-ID: <1340@hao.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 11:00:16 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1340 Posted: Wed Jan 16 11:00:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 03:25:24 EST References: <168@mplvax.UUCP> <124@tekcae.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 28 > In article <168@mplvax.UUCP> john@mplvax.UUCP (John McInerney) writes: > >My question is, > >how do you debug your f77 programs? Do you use a modified version of > >sdb? a fixed version of dbx? print statements? > > After limping along for several months using adb and print statements > (I also found dbx to be entirely worthless for f77), I tried to make > sdb work again. When I first read this, I decided not to clutter up the net by posting my response, so I mailed it instead. Now I've read the same thing again. I'd like to know why you think dbx is worthless for f77. Our version works fine. It is the vanilla-flavored version that came with 4.2 for our 750s. The only changes we've made that might have an effect on this are to install Donn Seeley's bug fixes to the f77 compiler, but I don't know if any of those fixes had anything to do with debugging (Donn?). What does dbx do or not do that makes you say it is "useless"? I find that all the commands I ever want to use (stop, trace (sloooow), print, file, func, edit, list) work fine. I and many others here routinely use dbx for debugging f77 programs. --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "...sometimes the light's all shining on me; other times I can barely see..."