Icon Programming Language Executables

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icont -- Icon translator and linker

Usage: icont [option...] file...

Options

-c        translate only, without linking
-fs       prevent removal of all unreferenced declarations
          (same as "invocable all")
-o file   name the icode output file file
-s        suppress progress messages
-t        give &trace an initial value of -1
-u        issue warnings for undeclared identifiers
-v n      set verbosity of output, where n = 
             0   suppress non-error output (same as -s)
             1   list procedure names (the default)
             2   also report the sizes of icode sections
                 (procedures, strings, and so forth)
             3   also list discarded globals

Environment variables recognized by icont

Name         Default    Description
--------     -------    -----------------------
IPATH        none       search path for link directives
LPATH        none       search path for $include directives

Search paths are blank-separated lists of directories. The current directory is searched before a search path is used.

See also: iconx -- Icon interpreter

iconx -- Icon interpreter

The Icon interpreter is normally invoked automatically when the name of an Icon program is entered as a command, but it can also be invoked explicitly:

iconx icode-file-name [arguments for Icon program]

Environment variables recognized at runtime

Name         Default    Description
--------     -------    -----------------------
TRACE              0    Initial value for &trace.
NOERRBUF   undefined    If set, &errout is not buffered.
STRSIZE       500000    Initial size (bytes) of string region (strings).
BLKSIZE       500000    Initial size (bytes) of block region (most objects).
COEXPSIZE       2000    Size (long words) of co-expression blocks.
MSTKSIZE       10000    Size (long words) of main interpreter stack.

Default sizes may differ on some platforms.

See also: icont -- Icon translator and linker