We have an application where we are calling DebugBreak at a certain point. Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This could be used to inspect the value of a variable at a particular frame, for example. application that Windows just terminates the app, instead offering to debug it.

1 and has installed the Visual Studio 2010 Shell IDE that is provided with Visual COBOL. C debug break Additionally, certain Visual C++ library components internally use DebugBreak() (under x86 builds, MFC and the C runtime library use the INT 3 opcode rather than an actual DebugBreak() call, however the end result is the same), specifically assert() under the C runtime and ASSERT() under MFC.