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1 | .TH MKSTR 1 "24 February 1979" |
| 2 | .UC | |
| 3 | .SH NAME | |
| 4 | mkstr \- create an error message file by massaging C source | |
| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 6 | .B mkstr | |
| 7 | [ | |
| 8 | .B \- | |
| 9 | ] | |
| 10 | messagefile prefix file ... | |
| 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 12 | .I Mkstr | |
| 13 | is used to create files of error messages. | |
| 14 | Its use can make programs with large numbers of error diagnostics much | |
| 15 | smaller, and reduce system overhead in running the program as the | |
| 16 | error messages do not have to be constantly swapped in and out. | |
| 17 | .PP | |
| 18 | .I Mkstr | |
| 19 | will process each of the specified | |
| 20 | .I files, | |
| 21 | placing a massaged version of the input file in a file whose name | |
| 22 | consists of the specified | |
| 23 | .I prefix | |
| 24 | and the original name. | |
| 25 | A typical usage of | |
| 26 | .I mkstr | |
| 27 | would be | |
| 28 | .DT | |
| 29 | .PP | |
| 30 | mkstr pistrings xx *.c | |
| 31 | .PP | |
| 32 | This command would cause all the error messages from the C source | |
| 33 | files in the current directory to be placed in the file | |
| 34 | .I pistrings | |
| 35 | and processed copies of the source for these files to be placed in | |
| 36 | files whose names are prefixed with | |
| 37 | .I xx. | |
| 38 | .PP | |
| 39 | To process the error messages in the source to the message file | |
| 40 | .I mkstr | |
| 41 | keys on the string | |
| 42 | \%`error("' | |
| 43 | in the input stream. | |
| 44 | Each time it occurs, the C string starting at the `"' is placed | |
| 45 | in the message file followed by a null character and a new-line character; | |
| 46 | the null character terminates the message so it can be easily used | |
| 47 | when retrieved, the new-line character makes it possible to sensibly | |
| 48 | .I cat | |
| 49 | the error message file to see its contents. | |
| 50 | The massaged copy of the input file then contains a | |
| 51 | .I lseek | |
| 52 | pointer into the file which can be used to retrieve the message, i.e.: | |
| 53 | .IP | |
| 54 | .DT | |
| 55 | .nf | |
| 56 | \fBchar\fR efilname[] = "/usr/lib/pi_strings"; | |
| 57 | \fBint\fR efil = -1; | |
| 58 | .sp | |
| 59 | error(a1, a2, a3, a4) | |
| 60 | { | |
| 61 | \fBchar\fR buf[256]; | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | \fBif\fR (efil < 0) { | |
| 64 | efil = open(efilname, 0); | |
| 65 | \fBif\fR (efil < 0) { | |
| 66 | oops: | |
| 67 | perror(efilname); | |
| 68 | exit(1); | |
| 69 | } | |
| 70 | } | |
| 71 | \fBif\fR (lseek(efil, (long) a1, 0) |\|| read(efil, buf, 256) <= 0) | |
| 72 | \fBgoto\fR oops; | |
| 73 | printf(buf, a2, a3, a4); | |
| 74 | } | |
| 75 | .fi | |
| 76 | .PP | |
| 77 | The optional | |
| 78 | .B \- | |
| 79 | causes the error messages to be placed at the end of the specified | |
| 80 | message file for recompiling part of a large | |
| 81 | .IR mkstr \|ed | |
| 82 | program. | |
| 83 | .SH SEE\ ALSO | |
| 84 | lseek(2), xstr(1) | |
| 85 | .SH AUTHORS | |
| 86 | William Joy and Charles Haley | |
| 87 | ...SH BUGS | |
| 88 | ...All the arguments except the name of the file to be processed could be made unnecessary. |