Re: Declaration, Definition & Reference listers for C

John Carter wrote:
> I'm interested in the large scale structure of very large programs (1000's
> of files)
>
> So to experiment with this I need to extract every {typedef, struct,
> union, enum, macro, variable and function} {declaration, definition and
> reference} from 1000's of C files.


Did you try a search to find the following tools?
1. http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/docblocks.html
2. http://membres.lycos.fr/hugoyar/c2htmlang.htm
3. http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
4. http://lxr.linux.no/
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_code_analysis




> Anybody know of a tool to parse standard C and spit out this information?
>
> I would write one myself, but to do it properly I would have to write
> a C preprocessor and most of C compiler.


Would you like to avoid to reinvent the wheel?
I suggest to reuse and improve the existing free software.


Regards,
Markus

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