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.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:
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\*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
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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
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produces a file named \*Mhello\fR
that can be run by the command
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\*M
.sp -.5
hello
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.in -.5i
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.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.