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     PCC(1)                                                     PCC(1)

     NAME
          pcc - APE C compiler driver

     SYNOPSIS
          pcc [ option ... ] [ name ... ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Pcc compiles and loads C programs, using APE (ANSI C/POSIX)
          include files and libraries.  Named files ending with .c are
          preprocessed with cpp(1), then compiled with one of the com-
          pilers described in 2c(1), as specified by the environment
          variable $objtype.  The object files are then loaded using
          one of the loaders described in 2l(1). The options are:

          -o out      Place loader output in file out instead of the
                      default 2.out, v.out, etc.

          -P          Omit the compilation and loading phases; leave
                      the result of preprocessing name.c in name.i.

          -E          Like -P, but send the result to standard output.

          -c          Omit the loading phase.

          -p          Insert profiling code into the executable out-
                      put.

          -w          Print compiler warning messages.

          -llib       Include /$objtype/lib/ape/liblib.a as a library
                      during the linking phase.

          -B          Don't complain about functions used without ANSI
                      function prototypes.

          -V          Enable void* conversion warnings, as in 2c(1).

          -v          Echo the preprocessing, compiling, and loading
                      commands before they are executed.

          -Dname=def
          -Dname      Define the name to the preprocessor, as if by
                      `#define'.  If no definition is given, the name
                      is defined as `1'.

          -Uname      Undefine the name to the preprocessor, as if by
                      `#undef'.

          -Idir       `#include' files whose names do not begin with
                      `/' are always sought first in the directory of

     PCC(1)                                                     PCC(1)

                      the file argument, then in directories named in
                      -I options, then in /$objtype/include/ape.

          -N          Don't optimize compiled code.

          -S          Print an assembly language version of the object
                      code on standard output.

          -a          Instead of compiling, print on standard output
                      acid functions (see acid(1)) for examining
                      structures declared in the source files.

          -aa         Like -a except that functions for structures
                      declared in included header files are omitted.

          -F          Enable vararg type checking as described in
                      2c(1). This is of limited use without the appro-
                      priate #pragma definitions.

          The APE environment contains all of the include files and
          library routines specified in the ANSI C standard (X3.159-
          1989), as well as those specified in the IEEE Portable Oper-
          ating System Interface standard (POSIX, 1003.1-1990, ISO
          9945-1).  In order to access the POSIX routines, source pro-
          grams should define the preprocessor constant _POSIX_SOURCE.

     FILES
          /sys/include/ape           directory for machine-independent
                                     #include files.
          /$objtype/include/ape      directory for machine-dependent
                                     #include files.
          /$objtype/lib/ape/libap.a  ANSI C/POSIX library.

     SEE ALSO
          cpp(1), 2c(1), 2a(1), 2l(1), mk(1), nm(1), acid(1), db(1),
          prof(1)

          Howard Trickey, ``APE - The ANSI/POSIX Environment''

     SOURCE
          /sys/src/cmd/pcc.c

     BUGS
          The locale manipulation functions are minimal.  Signal func-
          tions and terminal characteristic handlers are only mini-
          mally implemented.  Link always fails, because Plan 9
          doesn't support multiple links to a file.  The functions
          related to setting effective user and group ids cannot be
          implemented because the concept doesn't exist in Plan 9.