On 3/15/22 13:31, Paul Koning wrote:
On Mar 15, 2022, at 1:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 3/15/22 12:57, Paul Koning wrote:
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One difference is that GDB will be able to do COBOL mode debugging.
Never had a reason to try it but I thought GnuCOBOL allowed the use
of GDB. FAQ seems to say it can be used.
Yes, but presumably in C language mode.
But I thought there was a comment that because of the liberal use
of comments it was easy tracing a problem back to the COBOL source.
I'll probably never find out. :-)
Same here since I'm not a COBOL programmer.
What I meant: COBOL has data types like decimal numbers, which C doesn't seem to have.
So how would GDB view such a variable? How would you enter a value if you want to change it?
Good point. Might have to check it out just out of curiosity.
Last time I used any debugger was adb on System V 30 some years
ago to patch some M68K kernels. The closest I have come to
that level of debugging in a long time is to use -S option and
read thru the assembler generated by the compiler.
bill
