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GENCCODE(8)                                ICU 74.2 Manual                               GENCCODE(8)

NAME
       genccode - generate C or platform specific assembly code from an ICU data file.

SYNOPSIS
       genccode  [  -h,  -?,  --help  ]  [ -a, --assembly name ] [ -d, --destdir destination ] [ -n,
       --name name ] [ -e, --entrypoint name ] [ -f, --filename name ] [ filename ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       genccode reads each of the supplied filename and writes out a C file containing a  compilable
       definition  of the data in the data file.  The C file name is made by taking the base name of
       the data filename, replacing dots by underscores, and adding a .c file extension.

       If the -a option is used, platform specific assembly code is generated  instead  of  C  code.
       Most C compilers will accept both C and assembly files.  Instead of writing a filename with a
       .c file extension, a filename with a .s will be written instead.

       If genccode is called with no filename it terminates gracefully.

OPTIONS
       -h, -?, --help
              Print help about usage and exit.

       -a, --assembly name
              Output  assembly code instead of C code.  Use -h to see the list of available types of
              assembly to generate and to specify for this option.

       -d, --destdir destination
              Set the destination directory to destination.  The default  destination  directory  is
              the current directory.

       -n, --name name
              Set  the  data name to name instead of the default. This name is also used as the base
              name of the output. The default name is made of the icudt prefix, followed by  a  two-
              digit  version  number  corresponding to the current version of the ICU release, and a
              single letter indicating the endianness of the data (the letter b indicated big endian
              data, and the letter l indicates little endian ones).

       -f, --filename name
              Normally, an ICU data file such as mydata.icu will be turned into mydata_icu.c and my‐
              data_icu.o.  However, if this parameter was set to "somedata", the output  files  will
              be somedata.o and somedata.c, respectively.

       -e, --entrypoint name
              Set  the data entry point (used for linking against the data in a shared library form)
              to name.  The default entry point name is made of the data (set by the -n, --name  op‐
              tion)  followed  by  an underscore and the type of the data (set by the -t, --type op‐
              tion).

VERSION
       74.2

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2000-2004 IBM, Inc. and others.

ICU MANPAGE                                 11 March 2004                                GENCCODE(8)