FIPS tools explained
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api_list.pl
a script to produce an API description, saying what parameters are
for input, output or both.
Most often, the direction of a parameter is determined automatically.
However, quite a number of them are educated guesses. Either way,
the information is stored in the file declarations.dat in this
directory, and can be manually corrected; simply go through
declarations.dat, look for any value with the key 'direction'
where the value contains a question mark. Those should be changed
to whatever is true, and the values should be one of the
following:
<- output
-> input
<-> both
api_fns.pm
a module that helps api_list.pl do its job.
declarations.dat
a file of information about public fips symbols. See api_list.pl
above.
