Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!geoff
From: geoff@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Wanted - Auto function prototype generator
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Date: 23 Jan 89 08:09:25 GMT
References: <1989Jan18.092522.14499@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Reply-To: geoff@emerald.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
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Has anyone written, or are they in the middle of writing a program
that vaguely fits the following description?

The program should scan thru a set of C source files, checking each
function definition.  If the function is extern, it should place a
function prototype in the relevant header file (if it was in foo.c,
put the proto in foo.h).  If the function is static, it should place a
prototype at the top of that .c file.

In fact, why not go a stage further, and make it check which functions
call which other functions, and hence put the necessary #include lines
at the head of each source file.

Can this be done?  Or is it just pie in the ozone layer?

Geoff

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	Geoff Rimmer, Computer Science, Warwick University, England.
			geoff@uk.ac.warwick.emerald

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