Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!brianc
From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: I need to create ANSI C function prototypes.
Message-ID: <2273@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 19:15:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2273
Posted: Thu Feb 11 14:15:31 1988
References: <201@fxgrp.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <201@fxgrp.UUCP> fxgrp!ljz@ames.arpa (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
! I'm looking for a program that will take old-fashioned C code and
! produce ANSI C function prototypes.
! 
! For example, consider the following program fragment ...
! 
! 	char *foo(a, b, c)
! 	char *c;
! 	int b;
! 	{ ... }
!
! This program would produce something similar to the following:
! 
! 	char *foo(char *a, int b, int c);

I'm sure you meant to say "char *a;" in the program fragment, but I
won't comment on that...

I tried to do this once before.  I failed.  I wanted to have lint
create a lint-library for each source file, but lint libraries are not
particularly readable (they're not textual).  Anyway, perhaps someone
who knows a little more about the format of lint libraries can post
the information, or better yet, write a program that takes a lint
library and produces function prototypes?

Presumably you won't have to generate the prototypes too often.
-- 
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