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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2012-12-17 16:25:59 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2013-01-22 19:20:10 +0100
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Remove the 'inline' and '{inline,OutputFile}' options
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diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
index 6cb251c3e2..ecca287670 100644
--- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
+++ b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
@@ -352,22 +352,6 @@ erlc -o ../asnfiles -I ../asnfiles -I /usr/local/standards/asn1 Person.asn
list or a binary. Earlier versions of the compiler ignored
those following bytes.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>{inline,OutputName}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Compiling with this option gives one output module
- containing all asn1 run-time functionality. The asn1 specs
- are provided in a target module <c>Module.set.asn</c> as
- described in the <seealso marker="asn1ct#asn1set">reference manual</seealso>. The name of the resulting module
- containing generated encode/decode functions and inlined
- run-time functions will be <c>OutputName.erl</c>. The
- merging/inlining of code is done by the <c>igor</c> module
- of <c>syntax_tools</c>. By default the functions generated
- from the first asn1 spec in the <c>.set.asn</c> are
- exported, unless a <c>{export,[atom()]}</c> or
- <c>{export_all,true}</c> option are provided. The list of
- atoms are names of choosen asn1 specs from the
- <c>.set.asn</c> file. See further examples of usage <seealso marker="#inlineExamples">below</seealso></p>
- </item>
<tag><c>+'Any Erlc Option'</c></tag>
<item>
<p>You may add any option to the Erlang compiler when
@@ -454,21 +438,8 @@ asn1rt:decode('H323-MESSAGES','SomeChoiceType',Bytes). </pre>
any reason. Maybe you need to compile the same specs for
different encoding/decoding standards.</item>
<item>You want only one resulting module.</item>
- <item>If it is crucial to have a minimal system. Using
- <c>{inline,OutputModule}</c> includes all necessary run-time
- functions of the asn1 application, but skips those modules not
- used.</item>
- <item>Upgrading issues: Even if you upgrade your Erlang system
- you may want to continue running the old asn1 run-time
- functionality.</item>
- <item>Performance issues: If you have an asn1 system with a lot
- of cross references you may gain in performance. Measurements
- must be done for each case.</item>
</list>
- <p>You may choose either the plain multi file compilation that just
- merges the chosen asn1 specs or the <c>{inline,OutputModule}</c>
- that also includes the used asn1 run-time functionality.</p>
- <p>For both cases you need to specify which asn1 specs you will
+ <p>You need to specify which asn1 specs you will
compile in a module that must have the extension
<c>.set.asn</c>. You chose name of the module and provide the
names of the asn1 specs. For instance, if you have the specs
@@ -482,17 +453,7 @@ File3.asn </pre>
<code type="none">
~> erlc MyModule.set.asn </code>
<p>the result will be one merged module <c>MyModule.erl</c> with
- the generated code from the three asn1 specs. But if you compile
- with:</p>
- <code type="none">
-~> erlc +"{inline,'OutputModule'}" MyModule.set.asn </code>
- <p>the result will be a module <c>OutputModule.erl</c> that
- contains all encode/decode functions for the three asn1 specs and
- all used functions from the asn1 run-time modules, in this case
- <c>asn1rt_ber_bin</c>. In the former case all encode/decode
- functions are exported but in the latter only the encode/decode
- functions of the first spec in the <c>.set.asn</c>, i.e. those
- from <c>File1.asn</c>.
+ the generated code from the three asn1 specs.
</p>
</section>