Debugger Restrictions

Note the following restrictions on the debugger:

• If you have a paragraph (or section) and a data item with the same name, that name will refer to the paragraph (section). If more than one paragraph (or section) has that name, the last one will be the one used. Other data items and paragraphs (sections) with that name can be referenced only by their addresses.

  There is one exception to this rule. If a variable has the same name as a paragraph, you can still display (d ambiguousname) and accept (a ambiguousname) that variable in the debugger if you compile with at least -Gs and -Gd.

• Although the compiler allows for up to 15 dimensions in a table, the debugger will let you access only the first three dimensions.
• Although ACUCOBOL-GT object files are portable across all machines, an object file that contains debugging symbols or source may not be. These files can be run on other machines, but may cause errors if run with the debugger on the foreign machine.
• You can use the debugger on a native-code module in the same fashion as you do for a portable-code module. The only restriction is that you may not begin execution at an arbitrary point in a native-code module (the @! command).
• The debugger identifies a program name by a match on the first 30 bytes. This limitation derives from the compiler behavior, which reserves 30 bytes for the program name in the program object.