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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
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)
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.190150.22043@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 89 02:01:50 GMT
References: <1989Oct22.113105.29034@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1004@cirrusl.UUCP>
Reply-To: Ron Guilmette <rfg@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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In article <1004@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In article <1989Oct22.113105.29034@paris.ics.uci.edu> rfg@ics.uci.edu
>(Ron Guilmette) writes:
>>	Protoize is a tool which assists in the conversion of
>>	old style (K&R) C code to new style (ANSI) C code or to
>>	C++ code.
>
>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

Many people have asked for this effect.  Please note that you can create such
"composite" files yourself if you have a version of "diff" which supports
the -D option.  The SunOS "diff" does.  I hope that somebody will implement
this in GNU diff soon.

// rfg