COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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Issues Related to Binding and
Linking
Topics:
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Concepts and Terms
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Binding or Linking HP COBOL Programs
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Binding or Linking Mixed-Language Programs
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Accelerating TNS HP COBOL Programs
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Designing Programs With Large Amounts of Code
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Designing Programs With Large Amounts of Data
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COBOL Segmentation
Concepts and Terms
These the concepts and terms are relevant to binding and linking:
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Memory Areas
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Code and Data Blocks
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Binding or Linking
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Loadfiles, Linkfiles, and Processes
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Fixup
Code and Data Blocks
The compiler accepts HP COBOL source code and produces code and data blocks.
The code blocks can call each other.
Topics:
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How the Compiler Produces Code and Data Blocks
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How One Code Block Calls Another
Note. Most of this section applies to the Guardian environment. If you are binding HP COBOL
programs in the OSS environment, see Section 19, Using HP COBOL in the OSS Environment
and Mixed-Language Programs.