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.TH PX 1 "May 12, 1986"
.UC
.SH NAME
px \- Pascal interpreter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B px
[ obj [ argument ... ] ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Px
interprets the abstract machine code generated by
.I pi.
The first argument is the file to be interpreted, and defaults
to
.IR obj \|;
remaining arguments are available to the Pascal program using the
built-ins
.I argv
and
.I argc.
.I Px
is also invoked by
.I pix
when running `load and go'.
.PP
If the program terminates abnormally an error message and a 
control flow backtrace are printed.
The number of statements executed and total execution time
are printed after normal termination.
The
.B p
option of
.I pi
suppresses all of this except the message indicating the cause
of abnormal termination.
.SH FILES
.DT
obj		default object file
.br
pmon.out	profile data file
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Berkeley Pascal User's Manual
.br
pi(1), pix(1)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
Most run-time error messages are self-explanatory.
Some of the more unusual ones are:
.HP 6
Reference to an inactive file
.br
A file other than
.I input
or
.I output
was used before a call to
.I reset
or
.I rewrite.
.HP 6
Statement count limit exceeded
.br
The limit of 500,000 executed statements
(which prevents excessive looping or recursion)
has been exceeded.
.HP 6
Bad data found on integer read
.br
.ns
.HP 6
Bad data found on real read
.br
Usually, non-numeric input was found for a number.
For reals, Pascal requires digits before and after the decimal
point so that numbers like `.1' or `21.' evoke the second diagnostic.
.HP 6
panic:
.I  "Some message"
.br
Indicates an internal inconsistency detected in
.I px
probably due to a Pascal system bug.
.SH AUTHORS
Charles B. Haley, William Joy, and Ken Thompson
.br
VAX-11 version by Kirk McKusick
.SH BUGS
Post-mortem traceback is not limited;
infinite recursion leads to almost infinite traceback.