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     Name
          list - produce C source listing from a common object file

     Syntax
          list [-V] [-h] [-F function] source-file . . . [object-file]

     Description
          The list command produces a C source listing with line
          number information attached.  If multiple C source files
          were used to create the object file, list will accept
          multiple file names. The object file is taken to be the last
          non-C source file argument.  If no object file is specified,
          the default object file, a.out, will be used.

          Line numbers will be printed for each line marked as
          breakpoint inserted by the compiler (generally, each
          executable C statement that begins a new line of source).
          Line numbering begins anew for each function.  Line number 1
          is always the line containing the left curly brace ({) that
          begins the function body.  Line numbers will also be
          supplied for inner block redeclarations of local variables
          so that they can be distinguished by the symbolic debugger.

          The following options are interpreted by list and may be
          given in any order:

          -V          Print, on standard error, the version number of
                      the list command executing.

          -h          Suppress heading output.

          -Ffunction  List only the named function.  The -F option may
                      be specified multiple times on the command line.

     See Also
          as(CP), cc(CP), ld(CP).

     Diagnostics
          The list command will produce the error message ``list:
          name: cannot open'' if name cannot be read.  If the source
          file names do not end in .c, the message is ``list: name:
          invalid C source name''.  An invalid object file will cause
          the message ``list: name: bad magic'' to be produced.  If
          some or all of the symbolic debugging information is
          missing, one of the following messages will be printed:
          ``list: name: symbols have been stripped, cannot proceed'',
          ``list: name: cannot read line numbers'', and ``list: name:
          not in symbol table''.  The following messages are produced
          when list has become confused by #ifdef's in the source
          file: ``list: name: cannot find function in symbol table'',
          ``list: name: out of sync: too many }'', and ``list: name:
          unexpected end-of-file''.  The error message ``list: name:
          missing or inappropriate line numbers'' means that either
          symbol debugging information is missing, or list has been
          confused by C preprocessor statements.

     Notes
          Note that this utility operates only on COFF executables.
          Object files given to list must have been compiled with the
          -g option of cc(CP).

          Since list does not use the C preprocessor, it may be unable
          to recognize function definitions whose syntax has been
          distorted by the use of C preprocessor macro substitutions.

                                                        (printed 6/18/89)



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