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Programming Release Notes
6.9 Debugger
6.9.20 Nonunique COBOL Symbol Lookups (VAX Only)
V7.3
In previous versions of the debugger, lookups of certain COBOL record
components resulted in nonunique symbol errors. For example:
DBG> SET MODULE B_COB
DBG> EXAMINE D00_DIALLING_NO
%DEBUG-I-NOUNIQ, symbol ’D00_DIALLING_NO’ is not unique
record component A_COB\COMMON_DATA_FORMA T_WKSP.D00_CDF.CDF_WKSP.D00_DIALLING_NO
record component B_COB\COMMON_DATA_FORMA T_WKSP.D00_CDF.CDF_WKSP.D00_DIALLING_NO
%DEBUG-E-REENTER, reenter the command using a more precise pathname
This has been corrected.
6.9.21 Register View
V7.3
Previous versions of the debugger had the following problems associated with the
Register view:
• Debugger errors occurred when selecting registers after the register display
list had changed.
• Use of the Deposit Box shortcut menu caused unaligned register displays.
• Vertical scrolling sometimes corrupted the righthand side register values.
• It was difficult to change the floating point radix of register displays.
Some of these problems are internal to the debugger, and some originate in
DECwindows Motif. The display problems have been corrected as much as is
practical.
New Options on the Radix Submenus
In addition, the Change Radix and Change All Radix submenus (on the Register
menu of the Register view) have additional options. On VAX, you can now select
f_float for register display. On Alpha systems, you can now select g_float and
t_float for register display.
6.9.22 Source View Errors
V7.3
Previous versions of the debugger had problems within the source view of the
DECwindows Motif interface, including the following:
• Breakpoints set on routines through the source browser sometimes failed to
toggle on and off.
• The source view was unstable whenever the code was scrolled when used with
DECwindows Motif Version 1.2-5.
• Debugger errors occurred when the user was scrolling source code after the
RUN command and before the first GO command.
These problems have been corrected.
Programming Release Notes 6–13