Hello Group,

I'm trying to DEBUG a SUBROUTINE in Universe NT v.10. I step throu the
program using S and displaying local variables using SAMPLE/,STRING: T
r L=12 `003437303542' (No problems).

The problem that I have is when a variable comes from the EQUATE at the
beginning of the SUBROUTINE.

ex.

EQU ANS1 TO PARAM(1) (Will not display the data 'Symbol not
found'.)

PS. I can't use RAID on a SUBROUTINE. I get the following error 'Cannot
RUN a subroutine that has arguments.'

What can I do the view the data in ANS1?

Thanks for your help,

Peter

so true! you have to call it "PARAM(1)" when talking to RAID.
I'm sorry.

By the way, in recent releases of UV they now let us examine
individual elements of a dynamic array:
e.g.: CUST.REC<30,6,2>/
That's nice, but I digress.


You need a harness that you can run and fill in the input arguments.
RAID that.
Or for complicated cases, stick DEBUG statement in the sub or right
before the call you care about & run the program that normally calls
it.


the command is "PARAM(1)/" Likewise to assign a new value ("!"
comand), or setting breakpoints.
E.g.:

:: PARAM(1)/
STRING: T r L=4 `'NO''
:: PARAM(1)!'YES'
PARAM(1) was STRING: T r L=4 `'NO''
. Now is STRING: T r L=5 `'YES''
::


Have you tried the UniDebugger on the UV client CD? Last fall's IBM
conference had a really slick demo of a pgmr tool they are developing,
but it was definitely not even beta yet. It includes a debugging
interface, completely separate from unidebugger. The s/w engineer
was wanting feedback & took suggestions. I believe the EQU irritant
was mentioned. But that doesn't help today, does it?

cds

Chuck,
Thanks for the info on the disadvantage of using the native DEBUG of
Universe. I'm always using Accuterm and don't think I can use 3rd party
debugging tools with it. I'll have to rethink the way I debug from now
on.


Peter



Chuck wrote: