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Article #4506Re: dbx headache
From: Allan Duncan
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:35
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:35
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From article <1993Jan22.171934.15193@midway.uchicago.edu>, by jfu2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Carlo Graziani):
[ tales of woe deleted]
> I'm no expert on the subject, but I suspect that the problem has to do
> with the fact that dbx was not designed as a fortran debugger, and that
> it was "fortranized" by a series of awkward patches. Unfortunately, I
> am aware of no alternative available for Unix workstations. I feel that
> this is a serious limitation in the developement environment offered by
> vendors of fortran packages for unix.
>
> I can't say I miss working on a VAX, but I sure do miss the VAX fortran
> environment.
You have made an unwarranted generalization here. Unix != BSD :-)
The AT&T equivalent is sdb, and is much neater than dbx. It works with
Fortran (well moderately so), although it is still a bit kludgey.
Allan Duncan ACSnet a.duncan@trl.oz
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