I need help understanding how to use gdb with gfortran. In particular how do I refer to a variable in the calling routine if the program errors out in a called routine. My program is dying in an I/O library with no symbols, but I could probably figure out the problem if I could look at values in the calling routine. documentation isn’t much help I tried
p ‘test.for’::x
p _main::x
But those aren’t valid gdb commands.
Daniel Feenberg
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move to the right stack frame (i.e. up), and then you should be able to print x. Getting comfortable with the debugger takes some time.
It has been a while since I’ve used GDB, but there’s this one command, info locals, I found very useful when debugging procedures. It displays the values of all local variables in that procedure.
Maybe it is helpful to use a graphical frontend for gdb, which is available for a lot of IDEs (Emacs, VS Code, Eclipse).