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COBOLworx

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Introducing GDB-COBOL: Source-Level Debugging for COBOL Developers

Discover GDB-COBOL, a source-level debugger designed for COBOL developers. Learn how it brings familiar GDB commands to COBOL programs, with support for variable inspection, paragraphs, PERFORM statements, conditional breakpoints, and watchpoints. Explore a practical debugging example and see how GDB-COBOL makes troubleshooting COBOL applications easier.

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COBOLworx

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MESA at GNU Tools Cauldron 2026

James K. Lowden presented MESA — the Middle-End Semantic Assembler — at GNU Tools Cauldron 2026, highlighting new ways to inspect GCC’s internal representation and explore future performance opportunities for GCC COBOL.