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Q39811: No Symbolic Information Generated for Pascal Units

Article: Q39811
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 2.20   | 2.20
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | s_pascal | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 12-JAN-1989

The Microsoft Pascal Compiler Version 4.00 generates no symbolic
debugging information for Pascal Units. As a result, when tracing
through a Pascal program Unit, attempting to access any local
variables by using trace/watchpoints, dumps, examines, etc. yields a
"symbol unknown" error.

The only workaround is to transform the program Units into Modules.

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