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Berkeley
Pascal
PXP Implementation Notes
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Version 1.1 \- April, 1979
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William N. Joy*
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Computer Science Division
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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University of California, Berkeley
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Berkeley, California 94720
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Berkeley
Pascal is designed for interactive instructional use and runs
on the
\s-2PDP\s0 11 family of computers.
..A version of
...I pxp
..for the \s-2VAX\s0 11/780 is nearly complete.
The Pascal execution profiler
.XP
can be used to generate restructured source program listings
which are annotated with counts of the number of times each statement
in the profiled parts of the program was executed for a
particular run of the program.
A number of options of
.XP
provide easy control over the parts of the program to be profiled.
.Xp
can also be used to produce restructured program listings,
i.e. as a pretty-printer.
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The
.I "PXP Implementation Notes"
describe the design decisions which lead to the present form of
.XP
and give details of the internal organization.
The notes conclude with thoughts on similar facilities for future systems.
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Introduction
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This
.I "PXP Implementation Notes"
consists of four major sections.
In the first section we outline the design considerations which led to the
present
.XP .
Section 2 describes the implementation, with
the comment reformatting process described separately in section 3.
Comments on the viability of the current approach and the
possible shape of future systems are given in section 4.
.SH 2
Related
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UNIX
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Pascal documents
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The Pascal translator
.I pi
shares with
.I pxp
a common parser and error recovery routines, which is described in
[1].
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Pascal programs are currently interpreted by a program
.X
as described in the
.I "PX Implementation Notes"
[2].
An understanding of the particular details of the interpreter is not, however,
necessary to understand the workings of
.XP .
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The
.I "Berkeley Pascal User's Manual"
[3]
gives examples of using
.XP
and is the general reference guide for the system.
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Acknowledgements
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Ken Thompson wrote the first version of
Berkeley
Pascal without which none of this would have been.
Chuck Haley collaborated with the author on the Pascal system
development and his help in teaching the author the ins and outs
of
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was indispensable.
The author's faculty advisor,
Susan L. Graham,
has been a source of much encouragement, support,
and many helpful comments and suggestions.
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* The financial support of an \s-2IBM\s0 Graduate Fellowship
and the National Science Foundation under grants
MCS74-07644-A03 and MCS78-07291
are gratefully acknowledged.
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