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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
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 11:00:16 1985
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> 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
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