Absoft improves Fortran debugging on Mac OS with Fx3 and Xcode 3.1
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 22, 2008 at 10:43am
Absoft Corp. has announced what it calls “a significant advancement” in the ability to debug Fortran programs on Mac OS X/Intel systems. This improved capability utilizes the combination of Apple’s newly released Xcode 3.1 and Absoft’s Fx3 debugger. Both Xcode 3.1 and the Fx3 debugger are available now.
Absoft states this improved functionality is the combined result of the updated development tools included with Apple’s new Xcode 3.1 and the advanced debugging capabilities of Absoft’s latest Fx3 graphical, multi-language debugger. Using the new Xcode 3.1 with Fx3, customers will now be able to display and modify the values of program variables located in COMMON blocks, allocated in static storage, or declared inside Fortran 90 modules.
These capabilities are available when debugging either 32 or 64 bit executables on Mac OS X, Intel-based systems.
Xcode 3.1 runs with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) and is available free to registered developers from Apple’s web site. The Fx3 debugger is included as a standard component of Absoft’s Pro Fortran version 10.1 compiler suite and existing Pro Fortran 10.1 customers can use their current Fx3 as long as they have installed the 10.1.2 service pack. Customers who have not installed the service pack can obtain it free of charge here.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
