Re: DBGVIEW(*LIST)

DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) only puts the reference to the source member into the compiled object - I believe. *LIST puts the spooled output into the compiled object - the latter makes for a larger object on disk. However, it is always available, unlike *SOURCE. You can verify these statements by running DMPOBJ against the program - and interesting exercise.

My conclusions are from using DMPOBJ, not from any help text. I just compiled the same source with all 4 options - resulting sizes -
*ALL 385,024
*COPY 212,992
*LIST 385,024
*SOURCE 208,896
*STMT 208,896

Spooled files for *ALL and *LIST were 1 page apart - 118 vs 119 - did not do a thorough comparison.

All have symbol tables

I think *LIST would be good when you put the program on a system where the source does not exist.

Peter Connell wrote:

I always compile with DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) so that production issues can be
debugged.
I have a frontend to the STRDBG command which overrides the source file
location so it points back to the development machine on which the
source file resides.
However, there is a move afoot to change the default for all our
compiles to DBGVIEW(*LIST), the argument being that will then not matter
where the source is (sometimes it's been moved to another file?)
Apart from distributing the intellectual property along with the
executable, what are the objections to this strategy.
Peter

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