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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 21:07:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 21:07:28 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/v10/man1/icont.1 b/static/v10/man1/icont.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bf252d5c --- /dev/null +++ b/static/v10/man1/icont.1 @@ -0,0 +1,267 @@ +.ds M \fH +.de Ds +.nf +.in +.5i +.ft H +.sp .5 +.. +.de De +.ft R +.in -.5i +.fi +.sp .5 +.. +.TH ICONT 1 "The University of Arizona \- 5/27/86" +.SH NAME +icont \- process Icon programs +.SH SYNOPSIS +\*Micont\fR +[ option ... ] file ... [ +\*M\-x\fR +arg ... ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The program \*Micont\fR +is a command processor for running Version 6.0 Icon programs. +Used in its simplest form, +it produces a file suitable for interpretation by the Icon +interpreter. +Processing consists of two phases: +\fItranslation\fR +and +\fIlinking\fR. +During translation, +each Icon source file is translated into an intermediate language called \fIucode\fR; +during linking, +the one or more ucode files are combined and a single +\fIicode\fR file is produced. +Unless the +\*M\-o\fR +option is specified, the name of the resulting icode file is +formed by deleting the suffix of the first input file named on the +command line. +If the +\*M\-x\fR +argument is used, +the file is automatically executed by the interpreter +and any arguments following the +\*M\-x\fR +are passed as execution arguments to the Icon program itself. +.PP +Files whose names end in \*M.icn\fR are assumed to be Icon source programs. +These programs are translated, and the intermediate code is left in two ucode files of +the same name with \*M.u1\fR and \*M.u2\fR substituted for \*M.icn\fR. +The ucode code files normally are deleted when \*Micont\fR completes. +Files whose names end in \*M.u1\fR are assumed to refer to ucode +files from a previous translation; these files and the corresponding \*M.u2\fR +files are included in the linking phase after any \*M.icn\fR +files have been translated. +A \*M.u1\fR or \*M.u2\fR file that is explicitly named is not deleted. +Icon source programs may be read from standard input. +The argument +\*M\-\fR +signifies the use of standard input as a source file. +In this case, the ucode files are named \*Mstdin.u1\fR and \*Mstdin.u2\fR +and the icode file is named \*Mstdin\fR. +.PP +The following options are recognized by +\*Micont\fR: +.TP 4 +\*M\-c\fR +Suppress the linking phase. +The ucode code files are not deleted. +.TP +\*M\-m\fR +Preprocess each \*M.icn\fR source file +with the \fIm4\^(1)\fR +macro processor before translation. +.TP +\*M\-o \fIoutput\fR +Name the icode file +\fIoutput\fR. +.TP +\*M\-s\fR +Suppress informative messages from the translator and +linker. +Normally, both informative messages and error messages are sent +to standard error output. +.TP +\*M\-t\fR +Arrange for \*M&trace\fR to have an initial value of \-1 +when the program is executed. +Normally, \*M&trace\fR has an initial value of 0. +.TP +\*M\-u\fR +Issue warning messages for undeclared identifiers in the program. +The warnings are issued during the linking phase. +.PP +Icon has several tables related to the translation and linking +of programs. +These tables are large enough for most programs, but their sizes can be +changed, if necessary, by the \*M\-S\fR option. This option has the +form \*M\-S\^[cfgilrstCL]\fI n\fR, where the letter following the +\*MS\fR specifies the table and \fIn\fR is the number of storage units to +allocate for the table. +Some sizes depend on the size of the address space of the computer. +For this purpose, a VAX has a large address space, +while a PDP-11 has a small address space. +The tables and their default sizes for computers +with large and small memory sizes are: +.nf +.in +.5i +.sp +.ta .3i 2.5iR 3.3iR + \fIlarge small\fR +.sp .5 +\*Mc\fR constant table 100 100 +\*Mf\fR field table 100 100 +\*Mg\fR global symbol table 200 200 +\*Mi\fR identifier table 500 500 +\*Ml\fR local symbol table 100 100 +\*Mr\fR field table for records 100 100 +\*Ms\fR string space 15,000 7,500 +\*Mt\fR tree space 15,000 5,000 +\*MC\fR code buffer 20,000 4,000 +\*ML\fR labels 500 500 +.sp +.in -.5i +.fi +The units depend on the table involved, but the default values can +be used as a general guide for appropriate settings of \*M\-S\fR +options without knowing the units. +.PP +The environment variable \*MIPATH\fR controls the location of files +specified in link directives. The value of \*MIPATH\fR should be a blank-separated +form \fIp1\0p2 \*(El\0 pn\fR where the \fIpi\fR name directories. +Each directory is searched in turn to locate files named in link +directives. The default value for \*MIPATH\fR is \*M.\fR , that is, the current +directory. +.PP +The icode +file produced by the Icon linker is +executable. +\fRFor example, the command +.nf +.in +.5i +\*M +.sp -.5 +icont hello.icn +.ft R +.in -.5i +.sp .5 +.fi +produces a file named \*Mhello\fR +that can be run by the command +.nf +.in +.5i +\*M +.sp -.5 +hello +.ft R +.in -.5i +.sp .5 +.fi +.PP +Arguments can be passed to the Icon program by following the program +name with the arguments. Any such arguments are passed to the main +procedure as a list of strings. +.PP +When an Icon program is executed, several environment variables +are examined to determine certain execution parameters. +The values assigned to these variables should be numbers. +The variables that affect execution +and the interpretations of their values are as follows: +.TP 4 +\*MTRACE\fR +Initialize the value of \*M&trace\fR. +If this variable has a value, it overrides the translation-time +\*M\-t\fR +option. +.TP +\*MNBUFS\fR +The number of i/o buffers to use for files. +When a file is opened, it is assigned an i/o buffer if one is available +and the file is not a tty. +If no buffer is available, the file is not buffered. +\*M&input\fR, \*M&output\fR, and \*M&errout\fR are buffered if buffers +are available. +On large-memory systems, the default value of \fINBUFS\fR is 10. +On small-memory systems, it is 5. +.TP +\*MNOERRBUF\fR +If set, \*M&errout\fR is not buffered. +.TP +\*MICONCORE\fR +If set, a core dump is produced for error termination. +.TP +\*MSTRSIZE\fR +The initial size of the string space, in bytes. +The string space grows if necessary, but it never shrinks. +On large-memory systems, the default value of \*MSTRSIZE\fR is 51,200; +on small-memory systems, it is 10,240. +.TP +\*MHEAPSIZE\fR +The initial size of the allocated block region, in bytes. +The heap grows if necessary, but it never shrinks. +On large-memory systems, the default value of \*MHEAPSIZE\fR is 51,200; +on small-memory systems, it is 10,240. +.TP +\*MCOEXPSIZE\fR +The size, in words, of each co-expression block. +On large-memory systems, the default value of \*MCOEXPSIZE\fR is 2,000; +on small-memory systems, it is 1,000. +.TP +\*MMSTKSIZE\fR +The size, in words, of the main interpreter stack. On large-memory +systems, the default value of \*MMSTKSIZE\fR is 10,000; +on small-memory systems, it is 3,000. +.TP +\*MSTATSIZE\fR +The size, in bytes, of the static region in which co-expression blocks +are allocated. On large-memory systems, the default value of \*MSTATSIZE\fR +is 20,480; on small-memory systems, it is 1,024. +.TP +\*MSTATINCR\fR +The size of the increment used when the static region is expanded. +The default increment is one-fourth of the initial size of the static +region. +.SH FILES +.ta \w'\*Mitran\fR 'u +\*Micont\fR Icon command processor +.br +\*Mitran\fR Icon translator +.br +\*Milink\fR Icon linker +.br +\*Miconx\fR Icon run-time system +.br +.SH SEE ALSO +\fIThe Icon Programming Language\fR, +Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, +Prentice-Hall Inc., +Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, +1983. +.LP +\fIVersion 6.0 of Icon\fR, Ralph E. Griswold, William H. Mitchell, +and Janalee O'Bagy, +TR 86-10, +Department of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, +May 1986. +.LP +m4\^(1), icon_pi(1) +.SH BUGS +.LP +Icode files do not stand alone; the Icon run-time system must be +present. +An icode +file produced on one system will not work on another system unless +the Icon run-time system is in the same place on both systems and +the run-time system is of the same version of Icon as the linker +that produced the icode file. +.LP +Stack overflow is checked using a heuristic that is not always effective. +.LP +If the +\*M\-m\fR +option is used, +line numbers reported in error messages or tracing messages +are from the file after, not before, preprocessing. |
