Re: Character string passing to subroutines (was: ifc)

meteo · ‎02-28-2003

Hi,
We have ifc7-7.0.64 and we cannot print character strings which are passed to subroutines and have been declared as

CHARACTER*(*) SOMESTRING

in the subroutines.

The debugger seems to interpret this as a zero-length
array when, in fact, it is not. Do we have to resort to
PRINT statements to see the contents of the strings within the subroutines?

TIA,
mgo

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎03-03-2003

Which debugger are you using? idb should understand this.

Steve

meteo · ‎03-03-2003

Intel's debugger, idb.
You've not experienced this problem with your
character strings?

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎03-04-2003

I don't tend to use Linux, so I'm not familiar with the issues there. I suggest reporting the problem through Premier Support, where someone will get back to you with an informed response.

Steve

Martyn_C_Intel · ‎03-06-2003

Just a thought, you might try using null-terminated strings as in C. E.g.
character(len=12)HELLOWORLD
data_HELLOWORLD/'Hello World'C/

Then when this is passed to a subroutine as CHARACTER*(*), the debugger might be more likely to figure out the string length, which it can't do from the declaration.
Only a speculation, you should follow Steve's advice and report this to Premier Support.
Otherwise, you could try copying the argument, or some limited number of characters, into a local character variable of fixed length.

Martyn