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

Debugging Tools

HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003

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Run-Time Debugger

The HP run-time debugger, Visual Inspect, is PC-based, interactive, and symbolic.,If

you compile your program with the SYMBOLS directive (described in SYMBOLS and

NOSYMBOLS), the symbolic debuggers allow you to debug the program using the

names you assigned to the procedures and data items of the source program, rather

than the addresses that the compiler and linker ultimately assigned to them. If you do

not compile your program with the SYMBOLS directive, you can use only the low-level

commands of a symbolic debugger.

Any mechanism that calls the debugging facility calls the run-time debugger. Examples

of such mechanisms are:

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The RUND command

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An explicit call to the Debug debugger by the process

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A command interpreter DEBUG command

For more information, see:

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Debugging

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Visual Inspect’s online help

Note. When you have debugged the program, recompile it without the SYMBOLS directive to

decrease the size of the object file and decrease program compilation time.