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: <2302@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 17:07:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2302
Posted: Thu Feb 18 12:07:01 1988
References: <201@fxgrp.UUCP> <2273@cognos.UUCP> <445@spectrix.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.

In article <2273@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
! 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).

In article <445@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris R. Lewis) writes:
! An easy hack:
! 
! Take the lint shell file.  Make a copy.  Modify it so that it saves
! the output of the "lint1" pass.  Delete the lint2 pass.  Run it on
! the sources you want to have lint libraries for.  Viola!  The stuff
! you saved is the lint library.

Not quite so simple.  The lint "shell file" on this system (Sun Unix 4.2
Release 3.2) is not a script but a binary executable.  Doesn't anyone know
the format of the compiled lint library?
-- 
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