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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Dump Formatter</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="synopsis.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.65.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Synopsis Tutorial"><link rel="up" href="ch04.html" title="Chapter4.Processor design"><link rel="previous" href="comment-parsers.html" title="Comment Parsers"><link rel="next" href="ascii-formatter.html" title="ASCII Formatter"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dump Formatter</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="comment-parsers.html">Prev</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter4.Processor design</th><td width="20%" align="right"><a accesskey="n" href="ascii-formatter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="dump-formatter"></a>Dump Formatter</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>The Dump formatter's main goal is to provide a format
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