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From: marcap@concour.CS.Concordia.CA (Marc Pawlowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C syntax question
Summary: Where is the first executable statement
Keywords: C, syntax, compiler
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Date: 22 May 89 05:14:53 GMT
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I am looking for a public-domain trace utility for C. e.g. say when a
statement is about to execute.  The normal way of doing this of course
is to insert fprintf statements where appropriate.  I also want to know
which sections of code have or have not been entered.

I am constructing my own tool to do this but have run into a problem.
How can I tell where the first executable statement is in a complex
statement.

e.g.

    ....
    void foo(int a)
    {
      declaration list     
      statement list
    }

How do I know where the statement list begins?  In PASCAL it would be
after a BEGIN.  

Is there a quick way of doing this, other than to write the first
pass of a compiler?