GENCCODE(8)			ICU 76.1 Manual			   GENCCODE(8)

NAME
       genccode - generate C or platform specific assembly code from an ICU
       data file.

SYNOPSIS
       genccode [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -a, --assembly name ] [ -d, --destdir
       destination ] [ -n, --name name ] [ -e, --entrypoint name ] [ -f,
       --filename name ] [ filename ...	 ]

DESCRIPTION
       genccode reads each of the supplied filename and writes out a C file
       containing a compilable definition of the data in the data file.	 The C
       file name is made by taking the base name of the data filename,
       replacing dots by underscores, and adding a .c file extension.

       If the -a option is used, platform specific assembly code is generated
       instead of C code.  Most C compilers will accept both C and assembly
       files.  Instead of writing a filename with a .c file extension, a
       filename with a .s will be written instead.

       If genccode is called with no filename it terminates gracefully.

OPTIONS
       -h, -?, --help
	      Print help about usage and exit.

       -a, --assembly name
	      Output assembly code instead of C code.  Use -h to see the list
	      of available types of assembly to generate and to specify for
	      this option.

       -d, --destdir destination
	      Set the destination directory to destination.  The default
	      destination directory is the current directory.

       -n, --name name
	      Set the data name to name instead of the default. This name is
	      also used as the base name of the output. The default name is
	      made of the icudt prefix, followed by a two-digit version number
	      corresponding to the current version of the ICU release, and a
	      single letter indicating the endianness of the data (the letter
	      b indicated big endian data, and the letter l indicates little
	      endian ones).

       -f, --filename name
	      Normally, an ICU data file such as mydata.icu will be turned
	      into mydata_icu.c and mydata_icu.o.  However, if this parameter
	      was set to "somedata", the output files will be somedata.o and
	      somedata.c, respectively.

       -e, --entrypoint name
	      Set the data entry point (used for linking against the data in a
	      shared library form) to name.  The default entry point name is
	      made of the data (set by the -n, --name option) followed by an
	      underscore and the type of the data (set by the -t, --type
	      option).

VERSION
       76.1

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2000-2004 IBM, Inc. and others.

ICU MANPAGE			 11 March 2004			   GENCCODE(8)