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This commit slightly improves the formatting of the manuals. My
OpenBSD machine uses mandoc(1) to format manuals. I check the manuals
with `mandoc -T lint` and fix most of the warnings. I also make
other changes where mandoc didn't warn me.
roff(7) says, "Each sentence should terminate at the end of an input
line," but we often forgot this rule. I insert some newlines after
sentences that had ended mid-line.
roff(7) also says that blank lines "are only permitted within literal
contexts." I delete blank lines. This removes some extra blank lines
from mandoc's output. If I do want a blank line in the output, I call
".sp 1" to make it in man(7). If I want a blank line in the source,
but not the output, I put a plain dot "." so roff ignores it.
Hyphens used for command-line options, like \-a, should be escaped by
a backslash. I insert a few missing backslashes.
mandoc warns if the date in .TH doesn't look like a date. Our manuals
had a missing date or the RCS keyword "$Revision$". Git doesn't
expand RCS keywords. I put in today's date, 2017-01-18.
Some manuals used tab characters in filled mode. That doesn't work.
I use .nf to turn off filled mode, or I use .IP in man(7) to make the
indentation without a tab character.
ack(1) defined a macro .SB but never used it, so I delete the
definition. I also remove a call to the missing macro .RF.
mandoc warns about empty paragraphs. I deleted them. mandoc also
warned about these macro pairs in anm(1):
.SM
.B text
The .SM did nothing because the .B text is on a different line. I
changed each pair to .SB for small bold text.
I make a few other small changes.
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.TH EM_B 6 2017-01-18
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.ad
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.SH NAME
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em_b \- ACK B compiler
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B ~em/lib/ack/em_b
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.RI [ options ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I em_b
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is a port of the ABC B compiler to the ACK.
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Interested parties will be
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interested in the upstream distribution here:
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.nf
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.sp
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https://github.com/aap/abc
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.fi
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.PP
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However, the version here has been heavily modified \(em bug reports should be
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filed with the ACK, not with the upstream compiler.
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.PP
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Since B was designed for machines with word addressing, some hacking is
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required to make it work on modern, byte addressed machines.
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The generated
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code expects B variables to contain word addresses, and then generates
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code to transform these into native addresses before use (which,
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unfortunately, impacts performance).
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However, the ACK's linker doesn't know
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how to emit word addresses into the program's data sections, and so a
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separate fixup stage has to happen at runtime, just before \fBmain()\fP,
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to convert the byte addresses into word addresses.
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.PP
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The end result is that using multiple source files with B is somewhat
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unwieldy, requiring each module to be explicitly named and then an extra
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stage to generate the fixup code.
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See the \fBack\fP(1) and \fBabmodules\fP(1) for details.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.I em_b
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accepts the following flags:
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.IP \-w\ \fIsize\fP
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Sets the word size, used for scaling addresses.
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Usually either 2 or 4.
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.IP \-B\ \fIname\fP
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Sets the name of the module currently being compiled (used to generate the
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fixup table symbol name).
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Defaults to \fImain\fP if not specified.
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.IP \-i\ \fIfilename\fP
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The source B file.
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.IP \-o\ \fIfilename\fP
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The output compact EM bytecode file.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fIack\fR(1), \fIabmodules\fR(1)
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.SH REMARKS
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It is very unlikely the \fIem_b\fP will ever be useful for anything.
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