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.TH trans386 1

.SH NAME

trans386 \- Translator for 80386, 80486 and Pentium

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBtrans386\fR [ \fIoptions\fR ] \fIinput-file\fR \fIoutput-file\fR

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.SH DESCRIPTION

The code production portion of the TDF compiler is under the control of

a TDF translator, which translates a TDF capsule into an assembly source

file.  There are separate TDF translators for each target architecture.

This manual page describes the installer for the 80x86 architecture.

.PP

The basic action of the TDF translator, \fBtrans386\fR, is to

translate a TDF capsule, \fIinput-file\fR, into an assembly source

file, \fIoutput-file\fR.

.PP

It is recommended that \fBtrans386\fR should not be invoked directly, but via the

user interface \fItcc\fR(1).  The option \fB-\fIopt\fR can be passed

to \fBtrans386\fR by passing the option \fB-Wt, -\fIopt\fR to \fItcc\fR(1).

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.SH OPTIONS

The options denoted by a capital letter are common to the TDF installers

for all the architectures. The options denoted by a lower case letter are

specific to the 80x86. \fIswitch\fR stands for either \fB0\fR, to switch

an option off, or \fB1\fR, to switch it on.  The default states described

here may be different on other translators.

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.IP \fB-A\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should inline calls to

\fIalloca\fR.  This is done by default.

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.IP \fB-B\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should report floating point

constants which exceed their range.  This is always done by default.

If this option is switched off such constants are replaced by infinity.

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.IP \fB-C\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should apply the "constants

out of loops" optimisation.  This optimisation is performed by default.

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.IP \fB-D\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should produce Position

Independent Code (PIC).  This is not done by default.  This option is not

supported on the SCO or DragonFly platforms, and on the Linux platform it is

supported only for ELF binary format.

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.IP \fB-E\fR

This option disables \fBtrans386\fR's constant overflow checks.

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.IP \fB-F\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should apply the "strength

reduction" optimisation. This optimisation is performed by default. 

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.IP \fB-H\fR

This option causes \fBtrans386\fR to output debugging information in its

output file.  This will only work if the input TDF capsule contains

debugging information.  On the SCO platform the format used by \fBdbxtra\fR

and \fBcodeview\fR is supported. On the SVR4.2 platform Dwarf 1 is supported,

which is used by \fBdebug\fR. On the Solaris, DragonFly, and Linux platforms,

\fBstabs\fR is supported. The GNU debugger \fBgdb\fR may be used on all

platforms.

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.IP \fB-I\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should apply the "inlining"

optimisation.  This optimisation is performed by default.

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.IP \fB-K\fIstr\fR

Causes \fBtrans386\fR to optimise its code for a particular processor

model, determined by \fIstr\fR.  The available values of \fIstr\fR are

3 for the 80386, 4 for the 80486 (the default) and 5 for the Pentium.

So \fB-K3\fR means optimise for the 80386 etc.

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.IP \fB-M\fIswitch\fR

If this option is on, \fBtrans386\fR preserves division by a

floating point number rather than replacing it by multiplication by

the reciprocal of the number.  While the latter produces faster code,

it may lead to rounding errors.  By default, division by constants is

preserved.

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.IP \fB-P\fR

This option causes \fBtrans386\fR to output profiling information suitable

for use with \fIprof\fR(1) or a similar tool (see individual manual

pages for details). This option is currently not supported on the Solaris platform.

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.IP \fB-Q\fR

This option causes \fBtrans386\fR to quit before processing its input

files.  This is particularly useful in conjunction with \fB-V\fR.

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.IP \fB-R\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should immediately round every

floating point operation to its appropriate range.  This produces slower

code, but is necessary for strict IEEE conformance.  The default is not

to round after every operation.

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.IP \fB-U\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should apply the "loop

unrolling" optimisation.  This optimisation is performed by default.

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.IP \fB-V\fR

This option causes \fBtrans386\fR to print its version number and the

version of the TDF specification it supports.

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.IP \fB-W\fIswitch\fR

This option determines whether \fBtrans386\fR should make string literals

writable.  At present the C producer does not make use of this

facility, so strings are writable.

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.IP \fB-X\fR

This option disables all optimisations.  All \fBtrans386\fR's optimisations

are believed to be valid, so that any error in optimisation is a genuine

bug.

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.IP \fB-Z\fR

This option causes \fBtrans386\fR to print the version number of all the

TDF capsules it decodes.

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.IP \fB-a\fR

Always use a frame pointer. The default is to avoid using a frame pointer

whenever possible. The default results in better performance, but

in special cases where the stack is to be processed it may be necessary to

enforce the use of a frame pointer.

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.IP \fB-h\fR

Do not use the .bss segment, always put data into the .data segment even

if it is zero. This should very rarely be needed. The default is to use

the .bss segment.

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.IP \fB-k\fIswitch\fR

This option is applicable to DragonFly and Linux platforms only. If this option

is on, \fBtrans386\fR will produce output for an ELF binary format assembler,

otherwise a.out binary format is assumed. By default this option is on, as

appropriate for later versions of Linux.

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.SH SEE ALSO

\fIas\fR(1),\fIprof\fR(1), \fItcc\fR(1).

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