Ubuntu Manpage: pike - pike compiler and interpreter

Provided by: pike8.0-core_8.0.164-1ubuntu0.1_amd64

NAME

       pike - pike compiler and interpreter

SYNOPSIS

       pike [ -driver-options ...  ] [ script [ script-arguments ...  ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       Compiler and interpreter for the Pike programming language.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported by the loader:

-a Increase the debug level of the peep-hole optimizer with 1 (debug).

-anum Set the debug level of the peep-hole optimizer to num (debug).

-Dsymbol
Define the preprocessor symbol symbol to 1.

-Dsymbol=value
Define the preprocessor symbol symbol to value.

-d Increase the debug level with 1 (debug).

-dnum Set the debug level to num (debug).

-dc Increase the debug level of the Pike compiler (debug).

-dg Resets the debug malloc at every garbage collection (debug).

-dL Windows only: Enable Windows error dialogs when dll files cannot be loaded.

It is common that Pike has modules which are linked to dll files that are not
available in all installations. Therefore these error dialogs are disabled by
default so that Pike does not hang on them when attempting to load certain modules.

However, the error dialogs are the only way to see which dll's that could not be
loaded, so this option may be necessary to find out why a certain module does not
load.

-dp Turns off the peep hole optimization (debug).

-ds Debug signals (debug).

-dt Turn off tail recursion optimization (debug).

-dT Enable extra checks in the thread library, e.g. mutex sanity checks (debug).

-l Increase the debug level of the global optimizer with 1 (debug).

-lnum Set the debug level of the global optimizer to num (debug).

-mmaster_program
Use master_program instead of the ordinary master program.

-p Increase the level of profiling with 1 (debug).

-pnum Set the level of profiling to num (debug).

-ps Enable stack profiling (debug).

-qnum End execution after executing num Pike instructions.

-rt Turn on runtime checking of arguments to function calls, and soft casts.

-rT Turn on #pragma strict_types for all files.

-snum Set Pike stack size to num (minimum is 256).

-ssnum Set the pike C-level thread stack size to num.

-t Increase the level of runtime trace with 1 (debug).

-tnum Set the level of runtime trace to num (debug).

-tg Log the gc runs to stderr.

The following options are supported by the default master program:

-h, --help,
Print help message and exit.

-eexpr,--execute=expr
Execute expr and exit.

-xtoolname
Execute internal tool toolname from Tools.Standalone. Omit toolname for a list of
available tools.

-E, --preprocess
Just run the preprocessor.

-Idir,--include-path=dir
Append dir to the include path.

-Mdir,--modue-path=dir
Append dir to the module path.

-Pdir,--program-path=dir
Append dir to the program path.

-v, --version
Print version of Pike and exit.

-Vmajor.minor,--compat=major.minor
Set the compatibility version to Pike version major.minor.

-w, --warnings
Enable warnings.

-W, --woff, --no-warnings
Disable warnings.

--assembler-debug
Set the peephole optimizer debug level (debug).

--autoreload
Turn on the autoreload mode of the master.

--compiler-trace
Turn on tracing of the Pike compiler (debug).

--debug
Increase or set the debug level (debug).

--debug-without=feature
Hide feature from the resolver (debug).

--dumpversion
Print the Pike version number to stderr, e.g. "8.0.10\n"

--features
List some of the features that are enabled in this Pike binary and exit (debug).

--info Show various information about this Pike installation and exit (debug).

--optimizer-debug
Set the global optimizer debug level (debug).

--show-all-cpp-warnings, --picky-cpp
Enable warnings for failing #if constant() expressions.

--show-paths
Show the paths pike will use and exit (debug).

--trace
Increase the trace level (debug).

--trace=num
Set the trace level to num (debug).

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       script A path to a script written in Pike to be compiled and then executed.  Everything on
              the  commandline  after the script is passed as arguments to the main() function in
              the script.

       If no script is specified, pike will start in interactive- (Hilfe) mode.

REGISTRY KEYS

       On Windows, Pike is affected by the following keys in the registry:

       HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Pike\8.0\PIKE_MASTER
       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Pike\8.0\PIKE_MASTER
              Specifies the name of the master program (overridden by -m).  If these keys are not
              set (the default), then Pike finds the master by relative path from pike.exe.

ENVIRONMENT

Pike is affected by the following environment variables:

PIKE_MASTER
Specifies the name of the master program (overridden by -m).

Depending on operating system Pike may be affected by the following environment variables:

LC_ALL Overrides the other LC_* variables.

LC_COLLATE
Specifies the character collation sequence.

LC_CTYPE
Specifies the character classification.

LC_MESSAGES
Specifies the language of the system messagedatabase.

LC_NUMERIC
Specifies the decimal and thousand delimiters.

LC_TIME
Specifies the date and time formats.

The default master program is affected by the following environment variables:

PIKE_INCLUDE_PATH
List of directories separated with colon (:), to search for include-files.

PIKE_PROGRAM_PATH
List of directories separated with colon (:), to search for program-files.

PIKE_MODULE_PATH
List of directories separated with colon (:), to search for modules.

LONG_PIKE_ERRORS
If set disables truncation of paths in backtraces.

SHORT_PIKE_ERRORS
If set and LONG_PIKE_ERRORS is not set, truncates paths to just the filename in
backtraces.

PIKE_BACKTRACE_LEN
The maximum number of elements in arrays to describe in backtraces.

Note that the above environment variables have effect before the default master program
attempts to load the Getopt(3P) module, which occurrs before the master program arguments
are parsed.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0      Successfull completion.

       >0     An error occurred. See output on stderr (fd #2) for reason.

FILES

       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/lib/master.pike
                               default master program
       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/lib/modules/*
                               default module directory
       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/lib/?.?/*
                               backward compatibility modules
       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/lib/include/*
                               pike include files
       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/tools/pike.el
                               emacs fontlock definitions for pike-mode
       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/include/pike/*
                               C-include files
       /usr/local/pike/8.0.*/man/*
                               manual pages for pike