COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Compiler Directives

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006

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SYMBOLS and NOSYMBOLS

Default: NOSYMBOLS

Placement: Accepted anywhere, but to affect a program other than the first program

in a compilation unit, SYMBOLS must follow either an ENDUNIT

directive or an END PROGRAM statement, which signals the end of the

preceding program’s Procedure Division.

If you want a symbol table for a given separately compiled program, put

SYMBOLS before its Identification Division header. If the compiler

encounters a subsequent SYMBOLS or NOSYMBOLS directive within

the text of that separately compiled program, it issues a warning and

ignores that directive.

Scope: Applies until its opposite overrides it

Dependencies: SYMBOLS does not work when SYNTAX is active.

For SYMBOLS to affect a program other than the first program in a

compilation unit, it must be preceded by either an ENDUNIT directive or

an END PROGRAM statement, which signals the end of the preceding

program’s Procedure Division.

References:

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ENDUNIT

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SYNTAX

SYMBOLS

NOSYMBOLS

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