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Name
viewc — View file compiler
DESCRIPTION
viewc binary consume view files defined in format specified of viewfile(5). The view file describes the C structure which can be mapped to UBF buffer. The view file contains also the length of the STRING and CARRAY fields. Program does following steps:
- Generates C header file with structures according to the view file
- Calculates machine dependent the C field offset in the memory, calculates field lengths
To perform offset and size calculation, viewc generates small C program which is compiled by buildclient(8) Perl script. The generated temporary program is executed which updates the in-memory read view file. The view file is updated with platform specific data and the "object-file" is written to disk. The object file basically corresponds the same viewfile(5) format, except that additional meta data for each of the fields are encoded after the NULL column. Also some meta data are encoded in view file comments. The "object-file" can be used as original view file by viewc. In that case viewc will ignore the meta data and will produce new "object-file". Compiled view file gets extension .V, the generated header file in C language mode, gets extension .h. If source view file passed in command line for compilation contains the extension, for output files it is stripped off and only base name is used for target output files.
viewc must have access to cc (C Compiler).