From 1538561f0b7da5e7e1de86b342a347e39b3d7f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lev Walkin <vlm@lionet.info>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:24:01 +0000
Subject: updating documentation

---
 asn1c/asn1c.1 | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

(limited to 'asn1c/asn1c.1')

diff --git a/asn1c/asn1c.1 b/asn1c/asn1c.1
index 1e4a5153..f8553d04 100644
--- a/asn1c/asn1c.1
+++ b/asn1c/asn1c.1
@@ -6,44 +6,37 @@
 asn1c \- ASN.1 Compiler
 .ND ASN.1 compiler
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B asn1c
-.RI "[ " option " | " filename " ].\|.\|."
+asn1c [\fB\-E\fR [\fB-F\fR] | \fB\-P\fR | \fB\-R\fR | \fB\-t\fR\fIdata-string\fR]
+      [\fB\-S\fR\fIdir\fR]
+      [\fB\-W\fR\fIdebug-\fR...] [\fB\-f\fR\fIoption\fR...] [\fB\-p\fR\fIrint-\fR...]
+      \fIinfile\fR...
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-asn1c is a tool to compile the ASN.1 specifications into C language structures
-and accompanying routines to perform data encoding and decoding.
+asn1c compiles the ASN.1 specifications into the set of
+target language (C/C++) encoders and decoders for BER, DER,
+and other encoding standards.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-.B Overall Options
-\-E
-\-F
-\-L
-\-P
-\-R
-.RI "\-S " directory
-.RI "\-t " data-string
+\fIOverall Options\fR
+\fB\-E \-F \-P \-R\fR
+.BI "\-S " directory
+.BI "\-t " data-string
 .TP
-.B Language Options
+\fIWarning Options\fR
 .br
-\-ftypes88
-\-fnative-integers
-\-fno-c99
-\-funnamed-unions
+\fB\-Werror \-Wdebug-lexer \-Wdebug-fixer \-Wdebug-compiler\fR
 .TP
-.B Output Options
+\fILanguage Options\fR
 .br
-\-print-constraints
+\fB\-fbless-SIZE \-fnative-integers \-funnamed-unions \-ftypes88\fR
 .TP
-.B Warning Options
+\fIOutput Options\fR
 .br
-\-Werror
-\-Wdebug-lexer
-\-Wdebug-fixer
-\-Wdebug-compiler
+.B \-print-constraints \-print-lines
 .SH OVERALL OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-E
-Stop after the parsing stage. The output is a reconstructed ASN.1
-specification code, which is sent to the standard output.
+Stop after the parsing stage and print the reconstructed ASN.1
+specification code to the standard output.
 .TP
 .B \-F
 Used together with \c
@@ -52,11 +45,6 @@ Used together with \c
 tree fixing stage and dump the reconstructed ASN.1 specification
 to the standard output.
 .TP
-.B \-L
-Generate "-- #line" comments in
-.B -E
-output.
-.TP
 .B \-P
 Dump the compiled output to the standard output instead of creating the
 target language files on disk.
@@ -65,43 +53,48 @@ target language files on disk.
 Restrict the compiler to generate only the ASN.1 tables,
 omitting the usual support code.
 .TP
-.B \-S directory
+\fB\-S\fR \fIdirectory\fR
 Use the specified directory with ASN.1 skeleton files.
 .TP
-.B \-t data-string
+\fB\-t\fR \fIdata-string\fR
 Interpret the data-string as a sequence of hexadecimal values representing
 the start of BER TLV encoding. Print the human readable explanation.
+.SH WARNING OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-Werror
+Treat warnings as errors; abort if any warning is produced.
+.TP
+.B \-Wdebug-lexer
+Enable lexer debugging during the ASN.1 parsing stage.
+.TP
+.B \-Wdebug-fixer
+Enable ASN.1 syntax tree fixer debugging during the fixing stage.
+.TP
+.B \-Wdebug-compiler
+Enable debugging during the actual compile time.
 .SH LANGUAGE OPTIONS
 .TP
-.B \-ftypes88
-Use only ASN.1:1988 embedded types.
+.B \-fbless-SIZE
+Allow SIZE() constraint for INTEGER, ENUMERATED, and other types for which this
+constraint is normally prohibited by the standard. This is a violation of
+an ASN.1 standard and compiler may fail to produce the meaningful code.
 .TP
 .B \-fnative-integers
 Use native machine's integer types whenever possible,
 instead of the complex ASN.1 INTEGER and ENUMERATED types.
 .TP
-.B \-fno-c99
-Disable use of certain C99 extensions, like designated initializers.
-.TP
 .B \-funnamed-unions
-Enable unnamed unions in structures definitions.
+Enable unnamed unions in the definitions of target language's structures.
+.TP
+.B \-ftypes88
+Use only ASN.1:1988 embedded types.
 .SH OUTPUT OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-print-constraints
 When -EF are also specified, this option forces the compiler to explain
 its internal understanding of subtype constraints.
-.SH WARNING OPTIONS
-.TP
-.B \-Werror
-Treat warnings as errors; abort if any warning is produced.
 .TP
-.B \-Wdebug-lexer
-Enable lexer debugging during the ASN.1 parsing stage.
-.TP
-.B \-Wdebug-fixer
-Enable ASN.1 syntax tree fixer debugging during the fixing stage.
-.TP
-.B \-Wdebug-compiler
-Enable debugging during the actual compile time.
+.B \-print-lines
+Generate "-- #line" comments in \fB-E\fR output.
 .SH AUTHORS
 Lev Walkin <vlm@lionet.info>
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