4.3BSD-UWisc/man/catl/tani.1

TANI(LOCAL)         UNIX Programmer's Manual          TANI(LOCAL)



NAME
     tani - interpret a compiled Tanenbaum microcode program.

SYNOPSIS
     tani datafile [ -f tanfile ] [ -d ]

DESCRIPTION
     _T_a_n_i is the interpreter for the Tanenbaum microcode
     language. It takes two forms of input: program and data.

     The program input, _t_a_n_f_i_l_e, must be output from the Tanen-
     baum compiler, _t_a_n_c(_1).  The information in this file is in
     binary format and is currently not portable across CPU
     types.  If the -f option is not specified, _t_a_n._o_u_t is used
     as the program input.

     The data is given in _d_a_t_a_f_i_l_e and is loaded into the _h_o_s_t
     machine memory before beginning interpretation.  Each line
     of the data file contains information to be placed in a host
     machine memory location and may be in one of the following
     formats:

     o+ A number.  Numbers are presumed to be signed decimal
       unless preceeded by a '0' in which case they are read as
       unsigned octal.

     o+ A string enclosed in angle brackets (<>).  The string is
       copied into host memory with two characters per location.
       Newlines are represented as \n.  For the _p_r_i_n_t_s instruc-
       tion to work, strings must be terminated by a null (\0).

     o+ A directive of the form
                 .=. + number
       indicating how much (in host memory words) the current
       memory location should be incremented.  Again, the number
       is taken as decimal unless preceded by a '0'.

     o+ Comments start with a '/' and continue until the end of
       the line.  They may start anywhere on a line.

     The -d flag may be specified to observe the internal state
     of the interpreter as it runs.

AUTHOR
     Brian Pinkerton

FILES
     tan.out        default program input file

SEE ALSO
     tanc(l)




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TANI(LOCAL)         UNIX Programmer's Manual          TANI(LOCAL)



BUGS
     Debugging output is not well structured but still may make
     it too easy to debug these programs.




















































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