How can you view FORTRAN arrays of variable dimension?

[Tony_Garratt]

I am using FORTRAN 9.1 and VS 2003 .net and debugging some FORTRAN.

In the watch or locals window of visual studio I can expand arrays to see all elements for arrays that are have a hardwired dimension. But for arrays that have variable dimension (the size is passed into the FORTRAN subroutine as an integer) I cannot see the array elements - and in fact VS doesnt seem to release that its an array at all.

Is this a known issue or do I need to install a service pack?

Thanks.

Tony

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Well, that's odd. You mean you have something like this?

subroutine sub (a,n)
real a(n)

I just tried an experiment and I could see the array, though not when I first stepped into the routine when looking at Locals. I could however type the array name into the Watch window and it found it.

If you have an array dimensioned as (*), then what you have to do is enter a(1:10) or something like that in the watch window, as otherwise all you get is one element.

[Tony_Garratt]

Thanks Steve.

Ihave managed to fix it! What happened is that the intel expression evaluator was not installed. On a new PC, I had created a VS project that was producing just a FORTRAN lib for a C++ to link against. In VS, "hovering" over variables in the debugger didnt work and I could not see variable dimension arrays in FORTRAN as actual arrays.

Ithen created a new FORTRAN project - a console .exe - and this time VS asked me if I wanted to install the expression evaluator. I said yes and then rebooted.

After that, "hovering" worked in the debugger and I could also see variable dimension FORTRAN arrays properly.

I didnt install VS and Intel FORTRAN on the PC - our IT person did, but the PC was certainly in a state where the evaluator was not installed and this was causing me my problems.