On 10/12/2013 5:42 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
A PDSE member containing a program object has a very different, and very sketchily documented, mixed internal structure. Moreover, the loading of some of its text elements may be deferred until they are required|requested.
This is one of the big benefits of COBOL V5's use of program objects and PDSE. A COBOL V5 program's debugging information is packaged with the program object member alongside its object code, but is not loaded into virtual memory unless or until requested by a debugger or dump analyzer.
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