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From: 7103_300@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Automatic converters (K&R C => ANSI C) (K&R C => C++) (ANSI C => K&R C)
Summary: Try mkproto
Message-ID: <3997.2548e3a6@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 28 Oct 89 03:24:21 GMT
References: <1989Oct22.113105.29034@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1004@cirrusl.UUCP>
Reply-To: ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
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In article <1004@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi@sunseeker.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> What I really need is a tool that takes either
> 
>      int xyz(char *c, FILE *f);
> 
> or
> 
>      int xyz();
> 
> and produces:
> 
>      #ifdef ANSIPROTO
>       int xyz(char *c, FILE *f);
>      #else
>       int xyz();
>      #endif

I posted such a tool (mkproto) to comp.sources.misc a while back; it
produces
	int xyz P((char *c, FILE *f))
along with an appropriate definition for P. Mkproto has some limitations,
but it works well on most "common" code (e.g. I used it to produce
prototypes for Omega, with no problems).