COBOLworx Expertise

GCC COBOL Project

GCC COBOL is a COBOLworx Initiative

• Developed and maintained by COBOLworx for GCC
• And with a lot of help from the GCC Community
• Work started in 2021
• COBOL-85 Tests (NIST/CVVS) passed 2023
• ISO-IEC 1989:2023 work wrapped up in 2024
• Merged into GCC 15 pre-release Feb. - March 2025
• Expected GCC 15 Release by May 2025
• The GCC COBOL for GCC 16 Roadmap

GDB for GCC COBOL Project

• Also developed and maintained by COBOLworx for GCC
• And with a lot of help from the GCC Community
• Enables true source-level debugging for COBOL programs
• Works just like GDB with C, C++, etc.
• All GDB features available (CLI, IDE, remote, etc.)

GnuCOBOL Experience

Project Involvement

• Adopted GnuCOBOL for internal use in 2015
• Began contributoring in 2018
• Became Committers in 2020
• Helped complete Release 3.2

Developed GnuCOBOL Source Level Debugging

• First true COBOL run-time debugger
• Non-invasive; no tinkering with the source code
• Uses an extension for the GNU Project Debugger (gdb)
• Can be used from the command line (CLI) or IDE (VS Code)