WABT(1)

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Okay bestie, welcome to the WABT(1) manual page! This is all about wasm2wat and it's gonna be a journey 💖

✨ NAME ✨

wasm2wat — translate from the binary format to the text format 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wasm2wat [options] filename

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: wasm2wat reads a file in the WebAssembly binary format and converts it to the WebAssembly text format. That's literally the whole thing. No cap 💯

The options are as follows (and yes, there are a lot of them, but I got you):

  • --help — Print this help message (like, it's just showing you the help text, very demure ✨)
  • --version — Print version information (so you know what you're working with, iykyk)
  • -v, --verbose — Use multiple times for more info (the more you use it, the more it spills the tea 💅)
  • -o, --output=FILENAME — Output file for the generated wast file, by default use stdout (so if you want it in a file you say -o and give it a name; otherwise it just prints to your terminal like a little stream 🌊)
  • -f, --fold-exprs — Write folded expressions where possible (it's giving compact vibes ✨)
  • --disable-exceptions — Disable Experimental exception handling (no exceptions, literally)
  • --disable-mutable-globals — Disable Import/export mutable globals (mutable globals? not today 💅)
  • --disable-saturating-float-to-int — Disable Saturating float-to-int operators (those operators? cancelled)
  • --disable-sign-extension — Disable Sign-extension operators (no sign extension, periodt)
  • --disable-simd — Disable SIMD support (SIMD? not on my watch)
  • --enable-threads — Enable Threading support (threads are threading 🧵)
  • --enable-function-references — Enable Typed function references (typed function references, very fancy)
  • --disable-multi-value — Disable Multi-value (multi-value? more like multi-nah)
  • --disable-tail-call — Disable Tail-call support (tail-call but make it disabled)
  • --disable-bulk-memory — Disable Bulk-memory operations (bulk memory? not today)
  • --disable-reference-types — Disable Reference types (externref) (no externref for you)
  • --disable-annotations — Disable Custom annotation syntax (annotations? cancelled)
  • --enable-code-metadata — Enable Code metadata (metadata about code, very meta)
  • --enable-gc — Enable Garbage collection (GC said: let me in 💀)
  • --disable-memory64 — Disable 64-bit memory (64-bit memory? we're not doing that)
  • --disable-multi-memory — Disable Multi-memory (multi-memory? multi-no)
  • --disable-extended-const — Disable Extended constant expressions (extended const? extended no)
  • --disable-relaxed-simd — Disable Relaxed SIMD (relaxed SIMD? more like relaxed no)
  • --enable-custom-page-sizes — Enable Custom page sizes (custom page sizes, very bespoke ✨)
  • --enable-compact-imports — Enable Compact import section (compact imports, it's giving minimalism)
  • --enable-wide-arithmetic — Enable Wide arithmetic (wide arithmetic, thicc numbers)
  • --enable-all — Enable all features (just turn everything on, go off king 👑)
  • --inline-exports — Write all exports inline (exports inline, very efficient)
  • --inline-imports — Write all imports inline (imports inline, also efficient)
  • --no-debug-names — Ignore debug names in the binary file (debug names? we don't know her)
  • --ignore-custom-section-errors — Ignore errors in custom sections (errors? what errors? we ignore them 💅)
  • --generate-names — Give auto-generated names to non-named functions, types, etc. (auto-generated names for the unnamed, very generous)

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Okay so here's how you actually use this thing. First up: parse binary file test.wasm and write text file test.wast:

$ wasm2wat test.wasm -o test.wat

Second example: parse test.wasm, write test.wat, but ignore the debug names, if any:

$ wasm2wat test.wasm --no-debug-names -o test.wat

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

If you want more Unix content, check out these other manual pages (they're all linked, bestie):

💀 BUGS 💀

If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues.

Like, if something's not slaying the way it should, let them know. They'll fix it. Probably. 🙈

And that's the tea, bestie! This manual page is brought to you by Debian, dated $Mdocdate$, and it's the WABT(1) manual. Stay iconic, stay wasm-ing 💖✨

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