A Summary of Commands

mkAlerter

mkAlerter

The mkAlerter command reads an alerter description and generates C or C++ code that implements the description.

Synopsis

mkAlerter [-M] [-o {executable}] [-p {templ-path}] [-t [-f]] [-q] [-v] [-l] [X=Y...] [{alerterfile}.A...]

Description

The mkAlerter command is a program that reads an alerter description and translates it, with the help of code template files, into compilable C or C++ code. It also produces a make file for compiling the code. Alerter description files always have a “.A” extension. By default, mkAlerter produces a single source file, with an extension of “.c”. It also produces a header file (extension “.h”) and a make file (extension “.mk”). If the make file already exists, mkAlerter does not overwrite the existing file. This allows you to modify the make file as desired without fear of it being destroyed the next time mkAlerter is used, but does take advantage of the knowledge contained in the make file template used by mkAlerter when it does create a make file. The source file and the header are always overwritten each time mkAlerter is run. No modifications should ever be made to these intermediate source files, since the changes are lost the next time mkAlerter is run. If the -Mflag is specified at execution time, mkAlerter splits the source file produced into two

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