followup: can i use pgdbg (portlang group debugger)

[yosuke kimura]

Dear DDD team,

I did some trial errors without much success working with portland groups
pgdbg.  My ddd is 3.3.1 on i686 linux.  I downloaded source from gnu's
ftp and compiled with gcc 2.95.3.

I tried

ddd --dbx --debugger "pgdbg -dbx" a.out

What I got is error message from pgdbg saying "Can Not Open ./-q".
Apparently it recieves option -q, and pgdbg assumes -q as the name of file
since it is not a valid option for pgdbg.  DDD says "GDB could not be
started."


I also tried a file ~/bin/dbx with exec permission with following content

pgdbg -dbx

then started ddd as

ddd --dbx a.out

In either case I got prompt from pgdbg in ddd's window, but ddd itself
stayed at "Opening session ??????? ..." status.  pgdbg doesn't seem to
know which executable to work with.  It usually generates messages for
progress such as reading symbol tables if I start it as, for example,
pgdbg a.out

I tried ddd -dbx, and ddd still has trouble opening sessions.  I have no
quota and the partition ($HOME, executable, ddd, /tmp and so on in one
big partition) has > 1GB.

I am willing to spend my spare time to work with code, if I can get some
general direction for which file need to be edited.  So please let me know
if you know work around for this problem or have some suggestion for me.

Thank you.

-- 
yosuke kimura
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

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From: yosuke kimura <address@hidden>
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:54:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: can i use pgdbg (portlang group debugger)


Hello,

Ihave a project which has to use porland group's fortran compilers
(www.pgroup.com).  I read archive of gdb mailing list that there
executables are not compatible with gdb and array is not displayed
correctly.  I also noticed that parameters are considered out of scope.  I
was fooled by erroneous report by print command (value was 240. or
somethin but I got 2.3e-30 or something when i say p).  I judged I has to
stick to pgdbg, portland group's own debugger.

My question is if ddd can work with it?  My hope is that pgdbg has -dbx
option, and it behaves like dbx.  I am hoping that if I can use ddd with
something like

ddd -dbx -debugger=/usr/local/pgi/bin/pgdbg

Or should I try with a script called /usr/bin/dbx like

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/pgi/bin/pgdbx -dbx

Or is there any other solution to work with portland group's compilers?  I
once talked with there support and it wasn't much help.  They heard a
rumor somebody using it but they couldn't help me.

Please let me know if you have any information.  Thank you very much.

-- 
yosuke kimura
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA