topic Re: Fortran Graphical debugger question in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Fortran Graphical debugger question

postaquestion — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:03:47 GMT

I have recently purchased the professional edition of FORTRAN from Intel.I have the compiler up and running and can write codes. However i have never used a graphical debugger and would like instructions on how to bring up the graphical debugger and use it with a code. Is there a link to this information somewhere?

Re: Fortran Graphical debugger question

g_f_thomas — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:43:27 GMT

I presume by graphical debugger you mean the VS debugger. Try the IVF documentation (online integrated IVF Help) it has some pointers on using the debugger. There is a Microsoft Press door stopper by Jeff Robins but it's VC++/Net oriented. Here's a rudimentary introduction: in Debug configuration and with your program showing click on the extreme left of the IDE and you set a breakpoint. Repeat to setfurther breakpoints. Click on Debug/Start Debugging. After your progie has compiled and linked it will stop at the firstbreakpoint. Press F5 to continue to the next breakpoint, etc. While stopped on a breakpoint let the cursor hover over variables and arrays to see their current (Janus not allowed) values. There's a watch window you might want to explore.

Gerry

Re: Fortran Graphical debugger question

Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:55:47 GMT

As Gerry says, the on-disk documentation includes an overview of using the Visual Studio debugger. You'll find it under Building Applications > Debugging. Ignore the text about the "Intel Debugger (idb)" and focus on the part relating to Visual Studio.