From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21398 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2010 20:30:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 21387 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Dec 2010 20:30:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:30:47 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60023) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPLEJ-0006ER-9c for gcc@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:30:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPLEK-0003Rz-C3 for gcc@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:30:45 -0500 Received: from nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([98.138.91.23]:31119) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPLEK-0003R3-1x for gcc@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:30:44 -0500 Received: from [98.138.90.50] by nm8.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2010 20:30:42 -0000 Received: from [98.138.87.9] by tm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2010 20:30:42 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1009.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2010 20:30:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 57092 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2010 20:30:42 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.66] (AspertameMan@70.139.53.41 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Dec 2010 12:30:41 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: sSEmoCCswBDEkwSKpLyyG9SWfNNUD7yRusPXEdqYiQMz Subject: A possible super feature to add to gcc From: Aspertame Man To: gcc@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <1291581040.2886.6.camel@netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-12/txt/msg00163.txt.bz2 Back in the 1970's when we ran fortran on an IBM machine we had this really powerful command called CALL FDUMP that if inserted into a program would send the names and values of every variable, at the time of its call, to a printer or file. In my opinion this was much more useful at times than a symbolic debugger, in scientific number crunching applications. If gcc does not have a similar function call I feel there would be people using gcc in the scientific community that very well might appreciate CALL FDUMP being resurrected.