Yes, either -a 1 or -a 2 ultimately gives the same net output. I prefer the
succinct one.
The real "succinct one", as you write, would be without option -a. Neither
-a 1 nor -a 2. This is what I meant.
Is meant to produce something similar to my preamble script
As I wrote: it "writes addresses in files whose names are the "number of
instances", followed by a comma, followed by the PTR".
I haven't managed to figure out how to state the two require arguments in
Magic Banana's script.
The two files? They are in the command line I gave.