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BDS 'C' Users' Group Compiler Utilities II
____ NOTE: Certain of the programs on this disc are copyright (c)
1983 by Kevin Kenny. They have been released to the Users' Group
____ for non-commercial distribution only.
This disc contains the source code for several programs
which provide enhancements to the BDS 'C' environment. Most of
these programs extend the capabilities of the compiler, in much
the same spirit as the very successful "Compiler Utilities"
disc.
Full documentation is provided in machine-readable form for
the programs. All of the documentation files are intended for
processing by the NRO text formatter, available as "Utilities V"
from the Users' Group. The program documentation is mostly in
the form of "manual pages" which follow Stephen Browning's
recommended style.
Installation instructions for all the programs are also
provided. The file INSTALL.NRO is an NRO source for these
directions.
The file -CATALOG.DOC is a list of the files provided, with
a short description of each. The following programs appear on
this disc:
_____ CASM2:
This program provides a replacement for CASM, the CRL-format
ASM preprocessor supplied with BDS 'C'. It has been enhanced to
allow access to the external variable area from the
assembly-language code, to permit underscores as part of
identifiers (transliterating them to 'Q's so that ASM won't
complain), and to handle relocation directives under conditional
assembly. The usage of CASM2 is exactly the same as that of
CASM, so no documentation file has been supplied.
_______ CMDUTIL:
This is a collection of subroutines intended mainly for
processing the argc and argv passed to the main program in 'C'.
It provides a common processing for option abbreviations and
keyword values, and a common procedure to display command
syntax. It also includes an 'initv' procedure that is similar to
'initw' but can handle octal, hex, and symbolic constants as well
as decimal numbers.
____ CORO:
This is a subroutine library for the support of
'coroutines', a way to simulate multi-tasking on a
single-threaded machine. A verbose description of coroutines and
how they operate is in the file CORODOC.NRO; the specifics of the
package are described in CORO.NRO.
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BDS 'C' Users' Group Compiler Utilities II
________ CPROFILE: (Requires BDS 'C' release 1.50 or later)
This is a "profiler" for BDS 'C' programs. For each line
in a target program, it lists the number of times that line was
executed on a particular run. This information is useful for
debugging and in performance analysis.
____ CTOA: (Requires BDS 'C' release 1.50 or later)
This is a disassembler for BDS 'C' object code. It produces
a source file acceptable to CASM2 which generates the same object
program that a 'C' source did. It is useful in understanding how
the compiler operates. It may also be used (God forbid!) to ge
assembly language source for modification or transport to another
environment.
____ DIFF:
This is a program to compare two text files and give a
listing of their differences. It handles insertions and
deletions correctly, so can be used with files such as source
programs to determine the changes made between different
versions.
______ GENREL:
This is a utility program that extracts relocation data from
a function on a .CRL file. It is used as part of building
CPROFILE, to enable the run-time supervisor to be relocated to
high memory.
_____ RETAB:
This is a sample program to illustrate the use of the
coroutine package. See CORODOC.NRO for a description of its
use.
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program that a 'C' source did. It is useful in understanding how
the compiler ope