[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

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On Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 6:21:54 AM UTC-7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-02-28 18:53, bill wrote: 
> > On 2/28/2023 12:04 PM, Denys Beauchemin wrote: 
> >> On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 7:11:36 PM UTC-6, Robert A. Brooks wrote: 
> >>> On 2/27/2023 6:35 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>>> But isn't that the case for all VMS compilers? I know 
> >>>> I use /DEB/NOOP for both Fortran, Pascal and C when I want 
> >>>> to debug. 
> >>> Reagan may weigh in here, but I'm pretty sure that DEC suggested using 
> >>> /DEBUG/NOOP when using the debugger for any language with an 
> >>> optimizer back in 
> >>> the 80's; if so, then that's been a pretty consistent message. 
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> 
> >>> --- Rob 
> >> Speaking of debuggers. 
> >> 
> >> I'm not clear on how you can actually debug a gnucobol program, since 
> >> it's C in reality. 
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> Johnny

Speaking of debugging GnuCobol (nee open-cobol)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnucobol-users/2009-06/msg00003.html
I can't say why I never followed up. Anyway, it looks like the problem's been solved in the meanwhile.