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Multi on Athena updated to Multi 2000 release 3.5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Mar 21 13:40:59 2002
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:40:47 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated Multi on Athena to Multi 2000 release 3.5. Multi is an
integrated development environment from Green Hills Software tightly
coupled to a set of compilers (C/C++/FORTRAN) though I'm not sure if
FORTRAN can currently be used within the development environment
itself. Multi was formerly just a debugger/compiler set but the
debugger remains a primary feature of the suite. At the moment only a
Sun version is available but Linux may be coming in a few months.
To run it:
add multi
multi
or for a command-line interface (with limited functionality):
add multi
multi-tty
(typing help at the multi> prompt will give useful information).
There is extensive online documentation; also pdf manuals, located in the
/mit/multi/2000/solaris2/manuals directory, and code examples below
/mit/multi/2000/examples.
Program output from Multi 2000 appears in the UNIX launch window when
you run a program in the debugger. This can be confusing because the
documentation implies that you can click on the "IO pane" button in
the lower part of the Debugger Window to make IO appear in a pane of
the debugger- however this doesn't work and this button stays greyed
out.
Some functionality discussed in the documentation is not available or
relevant on Athena as Green Hills focuses on the cross-compiling and
embedded markets.
The project builder generates a lot of output- you should allow for this
in setting the location of your build directories.
Alex
