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  1. .\" $Id$
  2. .TH EM_DECODE 6 "$Revision$"
  3. .ad
  4. .SH NAME
  5. em_decode,em_encode \- compact to readable EM and v.v.
  6. .SH SYNOPSIS
  7. .B ~em/lib.bin/em_decode
  8. [ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
  9. .br
  10. .B ~em/lib.bin/em_encode
  11. [ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
  12. .SH DESCRIPTION
  13. Most programs involved with the EM project only produce and accept
  14. EM programs in compact form.
  15. These files are only machine readable.
  16. A description of this compact form can be found in [1].
  17. To inspect the code produced by compilers or to patch them for one reason
  18. or another, human readable assembly code is needed.
  19. Em_decode produces human readable assembly code from the compact form.
  20. .PP
  21. Em_decode accepts the normal compact form in both optimized and
  22. unoptimized form.
  23. .PP
  24. Em_encode produces the compact form
  25. out of these human readable assembly code.
  26. .PP
  27. The first argument is the input file.
  28. The second argument is the output file.
  29. Both programs can act as a filter.
  30. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  31. .IP [1]
  32. A.S.Tanenbaum, Ed Keizer, Hans van Staveren & J.W.Stevenson
  33. "Description of a machine architecture for use of
  34. block structured languages" Informatica rapport IR-81.
  35. .IP [2]
  36. ack(1)
  37. .SH DIAGNOSTICS
  38. Error messages are intended to be self-explanatory.
  39. .SH AUTHOR
  40. Ceriel Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit