blood-elf(1)

✨ blood-elf(1) — the User Manuals glow-up 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to blood-elf, living in the User Manuals section of your friendly neighborhood Linux man pages. this is the one that gets mescc its dwarfs 🧚 — yes really, that's the whole NAME line, i'm not even kidding.

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🩸 NAME

blood-elf — Get mescc with dwarfs 🧚✨

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📜 SYNOPSIS

blood-elf --file FILE [--output FILE --64]

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💖 DESCRIPTION

okay so here's the tea ☕: blood-elf exists to generate ELF debug tables in M1-macro format from M1-macro assembly files. that's it. that's the job. she's a specialist, she's booked, she's busy. 👑

At its core — and i mean at its core — it just reads until it finds :LABEL, and then it adds that label to the list of things to output. that's literally the whole personality. 🎀

It will ignore labels that have _ prefixing their name. so like, :_foo will not get an entry. sorry bestie, no entry for you, the underscore said no 🙈

If no output is specified, the result gets sent to Standard Out. no file, no problem, she'll just yell it into the terminal 💬

Fortunately, the only architecture difference you need to concern yourself with is whether your binary is going to be 64bits or 32bits — and 32bits is the default — and you pass the flag --64 should you need that alternate format. that's the entire architecture discourse, you're welcome, we kept it short. ✨

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🫶 EXAMPLES

Typically, blood-elf gets called in scripts used in bootstrapping, like this:

# blood-elf -f cc.M1 -o cc-footer.M1
# blood-elf --file cc.M1 --64 --output cc-footer.M1

see? short flag version AND long flag version, because she's versatile like that 💅

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🌈 COMPATIBILITY

blood-elf is compatible with all Turing complete machines 💀 — even the ones that try to be Turing complete minus one. (yes, -1. we said what we said. iconic.)

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👑 AUTHORS

• Jeremiah Orians <Jeremiah@pdp10.guru>
• Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>

the two legends who made this happen, give them their flowers 🌸

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📄 COPYRIGHT

• Copyright 2016-2019 Jeremiah Orians <Jeremiah@pdp10.guru>
• Copyright 2017 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
• License GPLv3+.

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🔍 SEE ALSO

M1(1), hex2(1), kaem(1), syscalls(2)

go read those next bestie, the lore is deep 📚

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this page shipped from Linux, dated JULY 2019, and answers to the name blood-elf(1) — mwah, love u, go generate some debug tables 💖🦋⭐

~ that's the whole manpage, no cap, periodt ~ 👑✨