Re: how to debug IDL with call_external?

[Nando <f.iavarone(at)acsys.it>]

pei zeng wrote:
> I have an IDL application which calls a FORTRAN code(quite
> large). When I
> run it, it crashed the application and would not allow me to debug
> the
> fortran code.
Have you tried to use a debugger?
I work with call_external of C code and I use dbx for debugging.
I run the dbx after IDL launching (on the process id of IDL).
After your code has linked the shared object, set a break point on
your external code and
it is possible to trace the execution.

Cheers,
    Nando

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