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+.TH XSTR 8
+.CT 1 prog_c
+.SH NAME
+xstr \- preprocessor for sharing strings in C programs
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B xstr
+[
+.B -c
+]
+[
+.B -
+]
+[
+.I file
+]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Xstr
+maintains a file
+.F 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
+The command
+.IP
+.L
+xstr -c name.c
+.PP
+will extract the strings from the named C source, replacing
+string references by expressions of the form
+.BI (&xstr[ number ])
+for some
+.I number.
+An appropriate declaration of
+.I xstr
+is prepended to the file.
+The resulting C text is placed in the file
+.BR x.c .
+The strings from this file are placed in the
+.F 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.
+.PP
+After all components of a large program have been compiled a file
+.B xs.c
+declaring the common
+.I xstr
+space can be created by running
+.B xstr
+with no arguments.
+This
+.B xs.c
+file 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
+Without option
+.BR -c ,
+creates files
+.I x.c
+and
+.I xs.c
+as before, but does not use or affect any
+.F strings
+file in the same directory.
+.PP
+It may be useful to run
+.I 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.
+.I Xstr
+reads from its standard input when the argument 
+.L -
+is given.
+An appropriate command sequence for running
+.I xstr
+after the C preprocessor is:
+.IP
+.EX
+cc -E name.c | xstr -c -
+cc -c x.c
+mv x.o name.o
+.EE
+.SH FILES
+.TF /tmp/xs*
+.TP
+.F strings
+Data base of strings
+.TP
+.F x.c
+Massaged C source
+.TP
+.F xs.c
+C source for definition of array
+.L xstr
+.TP
+.F /tmp/xs*
+Temp file
+.SH BUGS
+If a string is a suffix of another string in the data base,
+but the shorter string is seen first by
+.I xstr
+both strings will be placed in the data base, when just
+placing the longer one there will do.