H06.03 Release Version Update Compendium

Application Development Products

H06.03 Release Version Update Compendium—540008-002

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TNS/E Platform Debuggers

The TNS/E platform supports three debuggers:

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Visual Inspect Version 3.0

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Native Inspect

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Inspect

Visual Inspect Version 3.0

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Provides a graphical user interface on a Microsoft Windows platform

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Supports all debugging targets on the TNS/E platform (TNS, TNS/E, and all

snapshot files)

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Supports all programming languages on the TNS/E platform (C/C++, TAL, pTAL,

COBOL85, and TNS/E COBOL)

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New features for the TNS/E platform:

Display of SPI and EMS buffers

Support for unsigned long long data type and for 64-bit pointers

Enhanced ability to initiate and control privileged debugging sessions

Viewing instructions

Annotation of instructions that were moved during optimization

Stepping program execution by instructions

Setting instruction breakpoints

Setting conditional data breakpoints

Creating a Watch item from a register display

Creating a Watch item from an address in memory

Displaying, formatting, and modifying the contents of memory at an arbitrary

address

Ability to specify the DLLs that are to be loaded with symbols

Support for displaying non-ASCII characters, including extended ASCII and

Unicode, in source text and string values

Switching between Native Inspect and Visual Inspect while preserving

debugging state information

Note. At H06.03, TNS/E COBOL is supported only by Visual Inspect, not by the other two

debuggers.