How This Book Is Organized

This guide has several chapters, each discussing a unique topic. Each chapter describes a tool that can aid you in programming. These include:

Chapter 1, Tracing Program Execution With the TNF Utilities

TNF collects trace information about a program's execution. The Trace Implementation Format lets you insert probe points into source code to collect data for analysis.

Chapter 2, Lexical Analysis

lex generates programs to be used in simple lexical analysis of text. It is a tool that solves problems by recognizing different strings of characters.

Chapter 3, yacc -- A Compiler Compiler

yacc generates language parsers. It imposes structure on computer input and turns it into a C language function that examines the input stream.

Chapter 4, make Utility

make automatically maintains, updates, and regenerates related programs and files.

Chapter 5, SCCS Source Code Control System

SCCS (Source Code Control System) allows you to control access to shared files and to keep a history of changes made to a project.

Chapter 6, m4 Macro Processor

m4 macro language processor creates library archives and adds or extracts files

Appendix A, System V make

System V make describes a version of make(1) that is compatible with older versions of the tool.

Other tools of interest, documented more completely in the SunOS Reference Manual, are listed briefly here.

ar(1)

Creates and maintains portable libraries or archives

cpp(1)

Preprocesses C language directives

dis(1)

Disassembles object code for COFF

dump(1)

Dumps (displays) selected parts of an object file

lorder(1)

Finds an ordering relation for an object library or archive

mcs(1)

Manipulates the comments section of an ELF object file

nm(1)

Prints a name list of an object file

size(1)

Displays the size of an object file

strip(1)

Removes symbols and relocation bits from an object file

tsort(1)

Performs a topological sort

unifdef(1)

Resolves and removes ifdef'ed lines from C program source.