Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!spectre.unm.edu!john From: john@spectre.unm.edu (John Prentice) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Compilation listing from Sun F77 Message-ID: <1991Jun10.234931.5147@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 23:49:31 GMT References: Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 28 In article khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) writes: > >Because there is no such switch. An online/interactive tool called the >sourcebrowser is part of the package, compile -sb and check out man >sbrowser. > >Cross references are generated by some of the "lint" tools available, >notably IPT's fortran lint and QUIBUS's forwarn. Why is this? The UNIX Fortran compilers are the only ones I have ever encountered that don't allow you to generate cross-reference and variable listings while compiling (I should be more specific - the non-supercomputer UNIX Fortran compilers). These are very valuable debugging tools, I really miss then. Certainly dbx and dbxtool don't make up for them (and these are not very impressive debuggers anyway). I appreciate that tools exist out there to do this, but who wants to have to run so many different utilities (but that is a common complaint about UNIX - this is defintely an operating system for people who grove on lots of little utilities). Just curious. John -- John K. Prentice john@spectre.unm.edu (Internet) Computational Physics Group Amparo Corporation, Albuquerque, NM