Debugging Options Overview

This section describes the basic command line options that you can use as tools to debug your compilation and to display and check compilation errors. The options in this section enable you to:

• support symbolic debugging

• compile only designated lines and debug statements

• check the source files for syntax errors before creating output file

Preparing for Debugging

Use the -g option to direct the compiler to generate code to support symbolic debugging. For example:

IA-32 applications: prompt>ifc -g prog1.f

Itanium(TM)-based applications: prompt>efc -g prog1.f

Debugging and Assembling

The compiler does not support the generation of debugging information in assembly files. If you specify the -g option with -S, the resulting object file will contain debugging information, but the assembly file will not. If you specify the -g option and later assemble the resulting assembly file, the resulting object file will not contain debugging information.