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author | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +0000 |
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committer | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +0000 |
commit | f9ab90d9d6d02989a075d0f0074496d5b1045e4b (patch) | |
tree | add7e996bac5289cdc55e6935750c352505560a9 /usr.bin/xstr/xstr.1 | |
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diff --git a/usr.bin/xstr/xstr.1 b/usr.bin/xstr/xstr.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8795a2d --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/xstr/xstr.1 @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)xstr.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93 +.\" +.Dd December 30, 1993 +.Dt XSTR 1 +.Os BSD 3 +.Sh NAME +.Nm xstr +.Nd "extract strings from C programs to implement shared strings" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm xstr +.Op Fl c +.Op Fl +.Op Ar file +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Xstr +maintains a file +.Pa strings +into which strings in component parts of a large program are hashed. +These strings are replaced with references to this common area. +This serves to implement shared constant strings, most useful if they +are also read-only. +.Pp +Available options: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl +.Nm Xstr +reads from the standard input. +.It Fl c +.Nm Xstr +will extract the strings from the C source +.Ar file +or the standard input +.Pq Fl , +replacing +string references by expressions of the form (&xstr[number]) +for some number. +An appropriate declaration of +.Nm xstr +is prepended to the file. +The resulting C text is placed in the file +.Pa x.c , +to then be compiled. +The strings from this file are placed in the +.Pa strings +data base if they are not there already. +Repeated strings and strings which are suffixes of existing strings +do not cause changes to the data base. +.El +.Pp +After all components of a large program have been compiled a file +.Pa xs.c +declaring the common +.Nm xstr +space can be created by a command of the form +.Bd -literal -offset indent +xstr +.Ed +.Pp +The file +.Pa xs.c +should then be compiled and loaded with the rest +of the program. +If possible, the array can be made read-only (shared) saving +space and swap overhead. +.Pp +.Nm Xstr +can also be used on a single file. +A command +.Bd -literal -offset indent +xstr name +.Ed +.Pp +creates files +.Pa x.c +and +.Pa xs.c +as before, without using or affecting any +.Pa strings +file in the same directory. +.Pp +It may be useful to run +.Nm xstr +after the C preprocessor if any macro definitions yield strings +or if there is conditional code which contains strings +which may not, in fact, be needed. +An appropriate command sequence for running +.Nm xstr +after the C preprocessor is: +.Pp +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +cc \-E name.c | xstr \-c \- +cc \-c x.c +mv x.o name.o +.Ed +.Pp +.Nm Xstr +does not touch the file +.Pa strings +unless new items are added, thus +.Xr make 1 +can avoid remaking +.Pa xs.o +unless truly necessary. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /tmp/xsxx* -compact +.It Pa strings +Data base of strings +.It Pa x.c +Massaged C source +.It Pa xs.c +C source for definition of array `xstr' +.It Pa /tmp/xs* +Temp file when `xstr name' doesn't touch +.Pa strings +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mkstr 1 +.Sh BUGS +If a string is a suffix of another string in the data base, +but the shorter string is seen first by +.Nm xstr +both strings will be placed in the data base, when just +placing the longer one there will do. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 3.0 . |