COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

Program Compilation
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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CONSULT and NOCONSULT
object-name-list
can be continued onto subsequent lines, but the left parenthesis must appear on
the same directive line as the keyword CONSULT. Each continuation line for a
CONSULT directive must have a question-mark (?) in the indicator area. If a
CONSULT directive spans multiple lines, they must be consecutive (no blank lines,
comment lines, or program text lines can intervene).
object-name
is the name of a TNS/E object file. It can be either a file-system file name or (in
the Guardian environment) a DEFINE name. If the file-system file name is not
fully qualified with system, volume, and subvolume names, the compiler uses
the current default system, volume, and subvolume names to complete the
qualification. If object-name is in the OSS environment, it is an OSS
pathname.
object-name must specify either:
•
A linkfile
•
An archive file
•
A DLL
•
An import library
When object-name is an archive file, the entire archive file is generally not
linked into the target object file. Only those member files are linked that contain
procedures named either in the statement CALL
or in the statement ENTER in
the COBOL program being compiled. Whenever a procedure is needed from a
member file, the entire member file is linked.
When object-name is an import library, the compiler assumes that the
member programs were compiled without the directive NONSTOP. If this is not
true, the compiler issues warning 369, which you can ignore.
If an HP COBOL program references object-name either in the statement
CALL or in the statement ENTER, object-name must have been compiled
with the SYMBOLS directive (see SYMBOLS and NOSYMBOLS
).
NOCONSULT
is ignored.
object-name
,
object-name
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