Printing Fortran muti-dimensional array elements

[Claude N Williams]

Our center is migrating from SUN workstations to Linux RedHat Enterprise 
(RHE) servers. Our current RHE (i386-redhat-linux) version contains:

GDB  6.1
G77  3.2.3
DDD  3.3.1

We have the problem of being an R&D shop using 4 and 5 dimension arrays. 
We are having the problem that I have found (since 1999) up to 2002 
about the dimension size swapping and confusion when trying to examine 
an array element. For instance:

Defining an array(21,101,13) and attempting to examine the (2,1,13) 
element dies with a segmentation fault!

I realize, through the mail lists, this is (was?) due to the translation 
to C before compilation in G77 and how the gtabs are (were?) handled by 
GDB. But I have not seen anything recent.....

Has this problem been fixed? Can we just update the apps. to the current 
releases and the problem is fixed?

If not, is there a work-around? Other than emulating a one dimensional 
array and typing out the arithmetic calculation of the offset of the 
element?

If not, will any of the future releases of any of the apps. above fix 
this problem (or Gfortran)?

Please point me in the right direction - I am the point man for about 20 
scientific programmers and I want them to have a good experience with Linux!

Thanks,
Claude Williams
Research Scientist
National Climatic Data Center
Asheville, NC.