>We've installed Enterprise COBOL 5 in z/OS 2.1 and I'm experimenting with=20
>the NOTEST(DWARF) COBOL option.

>When I Bind the program, I see, for example:

>MODULE SIZE (HEX) 00072C24=20
>DASD SIZE   (HEX) 0014A000=20

>And I have no idea what that means.=20

>Has anyone been down this path?  Any ideas?

Well, I am the one in IBM who did the DWARF data in NOLOAD class segments for
COBOL V5, but I am not an expert in BINDER output.  I can guess that the
BINDER is reporting the executable size (the part that gets loaded when you
run) as MODULE SIZE, and the DASD size is the size of the Program Object
on disk, which includes the NOLOAD class segments of the PO that contain
the DWARF debugging data.  That data only gets loaded when someone calls
binder APIs to request that the NOLOAD segments be loaded, like, for
examples, a Debugger or CEEDUMP local variable formatting.

Cheers,
TomR              >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! <<

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