Re: Suggest closing some old pending PRs

[David Lecomber <david at allinea dot com>]

Hi Wu,
> - PR 648: Indexing is incorrect for printing elements of multi-dimensional 
> FORTRAN (g77) array
> 
> This is already fixed by David Lecomber patch (at least for DWARF reader).  
> And I had coded a testcase for that.  Could it get into mainline and gdb-6.4 branch?

I presume you mean the testcase ?  The actual code has been mainline for
18 months at least!

> - PR 822: Finding 'main' in languages other than C/C++
> 
> This PR is opened by Elena.  And I coded an intial patch to let gdb 
> set fortran main function to "MAIN__", which is used by both g77 and 
> gfortran.  Although it could not resolve the error completely.  It can let 
> gdb recoginize that the language is fortran after just loading the binary.
> Could I get this into the source tree and go on to implement the case 
> insensitive symbol lookup for Fortran?

There are other compilers - IBM XLF, Intel IFC, Portland pgf77, and
Pathscale EKO at the very least -- and I've never been able to find a
consistent behaviour that worked across the board - regexp or otherwise
matching!!  

Cheers
d.