Re: Lacing C/C++ code

Elan Feingold writes :
> All I need to recognize are functions. It would be nice to
> recognize C++ type functions too. I was thinking of hacking up the C/C++
> grammar available for ftp at places, but does anyone know of a better
> (read easier) way to do it?


About a year ago, I developed same type of tool for slightly different
requirement only using Lexical Analyzer. Given C source code, the tool
extracts called function names from a function definition.


All you have to do is to write a regular expression identifying function
name followed by '(' , optional argument list, ')' and '{'. After this you
have to skip data definition & search for first executable statement to
instrument the code with FUNC_START( "xxx"); OR just create a block
enveloping the function body and put FUNC_START("xxx"); as a first
statement. Two more regular expressions are required for identification
of function termination, i.e. '{' & '}' with corresponding action to
update counter and at the last '}' it should insert one more '}' to close
the block and FUNC_END("xxx");


The first regular expression to identify function start will also match
with "if", "switch", "while". So, the first string should be compared with
these keywords.


This approach works well for C source, not sure with C++.


Contact for further details.
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[I'd be concerned that this approach could be confused by declartions of
pointers to functions. -John]
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