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mcs(1)
NAME
mcs - Manipulates object file comment sections
SYNOPSIS
mcs [-v] [-V] [[-a|r|R data] | [-D key] | [-d] ] [-t tag] [-g flags] [-p]
obj1...objN
OPTIONS
-a data
Add a new subsection or append to existing subsection data. By default,
the data is treated as a character string and appended to the generic
string space subsection. Use -t to specify a subsection.
-d Delete a subsection. Use -t to specify the subsection that you want to
delete.
-D key
Delete one entry within a subsection. Use -t to specify the subsection
that this operation applies to. Currently, this option can only be used
with the system subsections TAGDESC and TOOLVER.
-g flags
Set tag descriptor flags for a subsection. Use -t to specify the
subsection. If flag settings already exist for this tag value, they are
overwritten by the new settings.
-p Print a subsection or the entire comment section. By default, the whole
section is dumped. Use -t to specify a subsection. By default, raw data
is dumped in hexadecimal. Special formatting can be used for system-
defined subsections.
Use with -v to view contents symbolically.
This option produces the same output as odump -cm. Use odump -j to view
compact relocations data stored in the comment section.
-r data
Replace subsection data. Use -t to specify the subsection that you want
to replace. The same data interpretation applies to both -r and -a.
-R data
Replace one entry of a subsection with the given data. Use -t to
specify the subsection that this applies to. Currently, this option can
only be used with the system subsections TAGDESC and TOOLVER.
-t tag
Specify subsection. Within an object, a tag is a unique identifier;
only one subsection is permitted of each tag type.
-v Produce verbose output. Can be used with -p.
-V Print version information for the mcs tool.
OPERANDS
data
Character string. Character strings containing white space must be
enclosed in quotes.
For certain subsections, specially formatted data is accepted. See
Special Sections for more information.
key Unique identifier for an entry within a subsection. See Special
Sections for more information.
tag An unsigned integer value or a system-defined tag name.
flags
Comma-separated tag descriptor flag names. See Special Sections for
more information.
obj A Tru64 UNIX object file that contains a comment section header.
Archive files are not supported. The object file can be a .o file, an
executable, or a shared library. It can be either compressed or
uncompressed.
DESCRIPTION
The mcs command allows users to perform operations on the comment section
(.comment) of HP (e)COFF object files. The comment section of an object can
contain information such as the "ident" string from a source file and other
information used by components of the Tru64 UNIX development environment.
Users can optionally add their own information to the comment section by
using the mcs tool.
Special Symbols
Definitions for symbols related to the comment section are located in
/usr/include/scncomment.h. The symbols recognized by mcs are shortened
forms of the names defined in the header file. The symbols consist of the
names of system-defined tags and tag descriptor flags.
System-defined tag names can be used with the -t option to specify a
subsection. These tags are:
CMSTAMP
COMPACT_RLC
STRSPACE
TAGDESC
IDENT
TOOLVER
LINKERDEF
II_CHECKSUMS
II_ATOMARGS
II_TOOLARGS
II_ANALADDRS
II_OBJID
Tag descriptor flag names can be used with the -g option to specify how
other tools should treat a specified subsection. The flag names recognized
by mcs are:
KEEP
STRIP
LSTRIP
APPEND
CHOOSE
DELETE
ERRMULT
ERROR
COPY
See Special Sections for more information on the TAGDESC and TOOLVER
subsections.
Special Sections
Processing of the TAGDESC and TOOLVER subsections differs from other
sections due to the following factors:
1. The -R and -D options can be used for per-entry operations.
2. The data entry format is unique.
TAGDESC Processing
System tools that create or modify objects rely on tag descriptor flags
in the TAGDESC section to know how to process subsections that are not
recognized by the tool. This allows new subsection types to be added
without requiring changes to system tools that control how they process
the new subsections.
Three sets of flags are supported:
_________________________
Strip Combine Modify
_________________________
KEEP APPEND COPY
STRIP CHOOSE DELETE
LSTRIP DELETE ERROR
ERRMULT
ERROR
_________________________
The "strip" flags tell the linker or stripping tools what subsections
belong in a stripped or locally-stripped object:
· KEEP means do not strip.
· STRIP means delete if removing the symbol table.
· LSTRIP means delete if removing local symbol information.
The "combine" flags tell tools such as the linker and mcs how to
combine data from multiple input subsections of the same type:
· APPEND means to concatenate raw data for each subsection.
· CHOOSE means to choose one (random) subsection's data.
· DELETE tells the tools that this subsection does not belong in an
output object.
· ERRMULT means raise an error if multiple instances of the tag
value are found.
· ERROR means raise an error if the tag value identifies an unknown
subsection type.
The "modify" flags tell a tool that is modifying a single object what
to do with subsections it does not understand:
· COPY means output a subsection identical to the one found in the
input object.
· DELETE means do not output the subsection.
· ERROR means raise an error if a subsection of this type is
encountered.
One value from each set is defined for each subsection. The default
flag settings are KEEP, APPEND, COPY.
Flags are specified symbolically on the command line. The accepted
format is a comma-separated list of three flag names with no white
space. For example, the default flag setting for a subsection with the
tag TAG# is specified as follows:
mcs -t TAG# -gKEEP,APPEND,COPY obj
The key for a TAGDESC entry is the tag value being described.
TOOLVER Processing
The TOOLVER subsection accepts data of the form:
tool_name,tool_version_number,version_string
The variables tool_name and version_string are character strings, and
tool_version_number is a numeric value. For example, to add tool
version information for a program named mytool, the command is:
mcs -t TOOLVER -a "mytool,0,Beta, 1/1/99" obj
This creates a new entry for the tool named mytool in the TOOLVER
subsection. To update this entry, use the -R option:
mcs -t TOOLVER -R "mytool,1,SSB, 1/1/99" obj
Note that double quotes have to be passed through the shell for strings
containing white space or commas. Make sure that the separator commas
have no spaces around them.
The key for the TOOLVER entry is the tool name.
EXAMPLES
The comment section of an executable file might appear as follows:
% mcs -pv objname
Tag Length Value Flags: Strip Combine Modify
CMSTAMP 0x0 0x0 KEEP CHOOSE COPY
COMPACT_RLC 0x208 0x30 STRIP DELETE DELETE
--- freeform data --- Use odump -j to view compact relocations.
---- end data --- END 0x0 0x0 KEEP CHOOSE COPY
If you want to delete compact relocations:
% mcs -d -t COMPACT_RLC objname
If you want to add a subsection and specify flags for it:
% mcs -a DATA -t0x80000000 -g STRIP,APPEND,COPY objname
The new subsection, identified by a tag value of 0x80000000, contains the
string "DATA" in its associated freeform data. The flag settings indicate
that the section should be stripped if the symbol table is removed, have
data appended if objects with this section are linked or otherwise
combined, and left unchanged by an object modifier.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of mcs:
TMPDIR
If set, this path is used for the creation of a temporary file. A
temporary file is used if an input object is compressed.
SEE ALSO
Commands: odump(1)
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