My understanding of the "WITH DEBUGGING MODE" is it's a compile-time switch
that turns lines with the 'D' in column switches to comments.  I don't think
it is related to any run-time debugging.  (Isn't that done with a $COMPILER
directive and link options?)

Mark Wonsil
4M Enterprises, Inc.

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> Behalf Of David Burney
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 10:42 AM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] 'with debugging mode' overhead
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>
> Greetings listmembers and listmemberettes.
>
> I've a question concerning the use of 'with debugging
> mode.' in Cobol code. I use this occasionally in my
> code to determine logic flow and variable values at
> specific points in the code.  Yet, I do not use the
> "D" indicator in column 7.  My question is, when I
> compile the code and run the object without using the
> ';parm=1' parameter to invoke the debug process, is
> there any performance loss ?  In other words, is leaving
> the 'with debugging mode' code in the program, even
> though I don't invoke it with ';parm=1' more system
> intensive ?
>
> As always, TIA.
>
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