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bf

yet another Brainfuck interpreter

bf [-h] [options] <filename>

bf ('Yet another Brainfuck interpreter') is a simple interpreter for the esoteric Brainfuck language.

Specify the number num of the last cell you are allowed to use in your Brainfuck program.

So if you use -c0 (or just -c), you'll have one cell (one byte in memory) to use on your tape. Brainfuck interpreter by Urban Mueller used an array of 30000 bytes (-c29999).
Our default value is 9999. Usually you need less.

Output Brainfuck code input to stderr.

This feature is useful if you can't find out why some Brainfuck code doesn't work the way it should e.g. ignored loops, or a Brainfuck character within a comment.

Note: Up to 32 +, -, < and > are summarized and displayed as only one. This feature was introduced in version 20040423.

Some Brainfuck contests specify a 0 byte as End Of Input. So -n translates a \n byte input into a 0 byte input. Disadvantage: the input can only consist of one line.
Disallow byte wrap-around. This causes errors if you try to decrement ('-') a 0x00 byte or to increment ('+') a 0xFF byte.

This feature is useful if you want to take part in Brainfuck contests where such wrapping-around is disallowed.
By default (without -w), incrementing 0xFF results in 0x00 and decrementing 0x00 results in 0xFF.

-,<mode>
Specify input mode. <mode> can be:

0 (zero) Normal input using getchar(3).
1 Single-char input. You won't see what you type.
2 Single-char input. You will see what you type.
3 The same as 1, but doesn't allow escape characters if compiled with slang.
4 The same as 2, but doesn't allow escape characters, if compiled with slang. (recommended)

Default is 0. (In some versions the default was 4.)

Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>