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From: daleh@tekcae.UUCP (Dale Henrichs)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: How Do You Debug Your F77 Programs?
Message-ID: <125@tekcae.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 21:23:36 EST
Article-I.D.: tekcae.125
Posted: Sat Jan 19 21:23:36 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 05:52:55 EST
References: <168@mplvax.UUCP> <124@tekcae.UUCP> <1340@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: daleh@tekcae.UUCP (Dale Henrichs)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

[I am just a poor f77 user trying to get work done on an operating 
system that doesn't seem to acknowledge the existence of any language 
besides C.]

In article <1340@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) 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.  
>
>I'd like to know why you think dbx is worthless for f77. Our version
>works fine. 


I am not involved with source code maintenance for UNIX, but as far as 
I know, we are using the latest release of dbx from Berkely (I believe 
that the f77 complier is vanilla 4.2, without any fixes from the net).

Nothing appears to work in our version of dbx...I have a 12 line test 
program and not one dbx command works (not to metion the 50k lines of 
f77 that our group tries to maintain without debugger support)....

I have also received several requests for the sdb-related fixes, so 
we're not the only site on the net with an inoperative dbx.

WHAT GIVES? < insert favorite long-winded flame >!!!

If Donn Seeley's bug fixes do make dbx work with f77, then I would 
love to get a copy of the fixes (I would pass them along to the others 
that requested my sdb-related bug fixes as well).  

If Donn's fixes aren't the secret, does anyone have an idea what might 
be going on? 

Dale Henrichs