Suggest closing some old pending PRs
Wu Zhou
woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
Fri Nov 4 23:26:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, David Lecomber wrote:
> Hi Wu,
> > - PR 648: Indexing is incorrect for printing elements of multi-dimensional
> > FORTRAN (g77) array
> >
> > This is already fixed by David Lecomber patch (at least for DWARF reader).
> > And I had coded a testcase for that. Could it get into mainline and gdb-6.4 branch?
>
> I presume you mean the testcase ? The actual code has been mainline for
> 18 months at least!
Yes. I mean the testcase.
> > - PR 822: Finding 'main' in languages other than C/C++
> >
> > This PR is opened by Elena. And I coded an intial patch to let gdb
> > set fortran main function to "MAIN__", which is used by both g77 and
> > gfortran. Although it could not resolve the error completely. It can let
> > gdb recoginize that the language is fortran after just loading the binary.
> > Could I get this into the source tree and go on to implement the case
> > insensitive symbol lookup for Fortran?
>
> There are other compilers - IBM XLF, Intel IFC, Portland pgf77, and
> Pathscale EKO at the very least -- and I've never been able to find a
> consistent behaviour that worked across the board - regexp or otherwise
> matching!!
Yes. It is hard to find a consistent way to handle this. What is the
situation in C, c++ or other language fields? Maybe we need a similar
thing like c++ ABI or something else. If we can't get any input from these
proprietary compiler, we can only make it work for g77 and gfortran.
Regards
- Wu Zhou
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