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How to set a breakpoint programmatically in Fortran / Raise a SIGINT in Fortran

I want the debugger (Gdb) attached to my Fortran program to stop under some programmed circumstances. In C/C++ this is easily possible: Set breakpoint in C or C++ code programmatically for gdb on Linux

How to raise such a signal in Fortran?

Solution

  • Just call the same C system function as in the linked answer

      use iso_c_binding, only: c_int
  
  implicit none

  interface
    function raise(sig) bind(C, name="raise")
      use iso_c_binding, only: c_int
      integer(c_int) :: raise
      integer(c_int), value :: sig
    end function
  end interface

  integer(c_int), parameter :: SIGINT = 2
  
  
  print *, raise(SIGINT)
    
end

    It is probably not easy to avoid entering the SIGINT integer value manually. Consult your signal.h or man raise. The value 2 is for POSIX. On POSIX systems you can also use SIGTRAP = 5.