COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Program Compilation

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

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SYMBOLS and NOSYMBOLS

SYMBOLS

includes a symbol table in the object file used by a symbolic debugger.

NOSYMBOLS

excludes the symbol table from the object file used by a symbolic debugger.

You can include or exclude the symbol table from the object file on a program-unit-by-

program-unit basis.

If the SYMBOLS directive is active, the compiler does not perform certain object code

optimizations, so the object program might execute slightly more slowly and be slightly

larger in size.

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.

References:

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ENDUNIT

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SYNTAX

SYMBOLS

NOSYMBOLS

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