Please forgive the ignorance, I'm an administrator by profession and
only program when I have to. One of our programmers just brought this
to me:

She has a COBOL program which compiles correctly when the first line
reads

$CONTROL USLINIT,POST85

But when she changes it to read

$CONTROL USLINIT,POST85,SYMDEBUG

she gets the following error:

:COB85XL SPNDISS,*COMPOBJ,*COMPLST

PAGE 0001  COBOL II/iX HP31500A.04.16  [85] Copyright Hewlett-Packard CO. 1987

LINE #   SEQ # COL ERROR SEV            TEXT
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 10553  Bk-end  80  384  Q  Codegen detected error (7004) Debug information
                            may be corrupt: 1 unresolvable reference (7004).

0 ERROR(s), 1 QUESTIONABLE, 0 WARNING(s)

    DATA AREA IS     66A4 BYTES.
    CPU TIME = 0:00:21.  WALL TIME = 0:00:28.

END OF PROGRAM
END OF COMPILE
:

Any info will certainly be most appreciated. TIA!

Patrick, who hasn't touched a compiler for at least 9 months
(and is feeling it!)
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Systems Programmer
Kirke-Van Orsdel, Inc.
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