PROTOIZE/UNPROTOIZE version 1.39.0 now available

Ron Guilmette lupine!rfg at uunet.uu.net
Wed Feb 27 06:53:27 AEST 1991


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                             Protoize/Unprotoize

     This is a brief announcement concerning the release of new versions
     (1.39.0) of two free software tools called protoize and unprotoize.
     Protoize is a tool to assist in the conversion of old-style (K&R) C
     code  to  new-style  ANSI  C code or C++ code (with function proto-
     types).  Unprotoize is a tool to assist in the conversion  of  new-
     style ANSI C code to old-style (K&R) C code without function proto-
     types.

     Neither of these tools claims to do a  complete  conversion  (there
     are too many niggling little incompatibilities) however the bulk of
     the work (usually  more  than  90%)  in  such  conversions  usually
     involves  function  prototypes.   This  is the part of the job that
     protoize and unprotoize can perform automatically (leaving  you  to
     contend only with the remaining niggling details).

     The protoize and unprotoize tools have been built specifically  for
     doing  mass  conversions  on large systems of C source code.  Thus,
     both protoize and unprotoize are able to deal effectively  with  an
     entire group of source files during each individual run.

     Most importantly, protoize can use  information  gleaned  from  one
     source  file to help with the conversion of other base source files
     and/or include files in the same group.  This capability is partic-
     ularly  useful when one wants one's include files to contain ANSI C
     (and/or C++) function prototypes.  Protoize is  able  to  automati-
     cally insert such prototypes into include files based upon informa-
     tion it gets from your  base  source  (i.e. .c)  files.   Likewise,
     external  function  declarations  appearing  in one .c file will be
     converted to prototype form based upon  information  gathered  from
     the  corresponding function definitions in the same .c source file,
     or in other .c files.

     Protoize can also be  used  with  your  system's  own  native  lint
     libraries  to  generate a complete set of fully prototyped "system"
     include files.  Such a set can be useful for catching more function
     calling  errors  at  compile  time. (Note however that this feature
     requires an additional script which is  not  currently  distributed
     with the protoize/unprotoize patch kit.  Send E-mail to rfg at ncd.com
     for further details.)

     Protoize and unprotoize work in conjunction with the GNU C compiler
     (GCC)  which is used as a front-end information gathering tool.  In
     order to build or use protoize or unprotoize you  must  also  build
     and use GCC.

     Version 1.39.0 of protoize/unprotoize is significantly better  than
     previous  versions.   If  you  tried protoize/unprotoize before and
     didn't like them, please try them again.   You  may  be  pleasantly
     surprized.   The  1.39.0  version  of  protoize/unprotoize has been
     pre-tested by several people on a number of different machines  and
     is believed to be quite portable and reasonably bug free.  (My spe-
     cial thanks to all the pre-testers!)

     As with prior versions,  the  distribution  file  is  a  compressed
     *patch* file (not a tar file) which should be applied to a pristine
     set of GCC Version 1.39 source files.

     The application of the protoize/unprotoize patches in the kit to  a
     set  of GCC 1.39 sources will result in the creation of several new
     files.  Among these "additions" are the file README-PROTOIZE and  a
     common  pre-man-page  file called proto-unproto.1.  The latter file
     will be preprocessed into two man-page files (called protoize.1 and
     unprotoize.1)  by  the (modified) Makefile during a normal build of
     the (modified) GCC.

     Note that when using protoize 1.39.0 you may occasionally get  mes-
     sages like:

             please add `extern foobar()' to LIBC.c

     These messages are an indication that your native "system"  include
     files  are  not  yet in fully prototyped form.  For now, you should
     just ignore these messages.  I am now  developing  a  plan  whereby
     protoize will be able to automatically create protoized versions of
     system include files for a variety of systems.  Additional code and
     scripts  needed  to  implement  this  scheme will be available in a
     later release of protoize/unprotoize.

     Because many things have changed in this version,  it  is  strongly
     advised  that  you  read the README-PROTOIZE file and the man pages
     again, even if you  have  already  been  using  prior  versions  of
     protoize/unprotoize.

     As before, I welcome comments, suggestions, bug reports and  (espe-
     cially)  compliments.   User suggestions have been the major source
     of ideas for new features up till now, and I'll try to be receptive
     if you have a new idea for an additional feature.  Also, please let
     me know if you use these tools to do  a  conversion  on  any  large
     (i.e. >= 100k lines of code) system.

     The size of the protoize-1.39.0.Z patch kit file is  114009  bytes.
     If  you get the patch kit via anonymous FTP, via anonymous UUCP, or
     via mail server (as described below) and  if  it  has  a  different
     size, then something is definitely wrong.

     Protoize, Unprotoize, and GCC are owned and operated  by  the  Free
     Software Foundation.  They are available to all under the terms and
     conditions of the GNU General Public License, a copy  of  which  is
     provided with the source code for GCC.


                             U. S. Availability

     Protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 is available via  anonymous  FTP
     from   prep.ai.mit.edu   (18.71.0.38)   on  the  east  coast,  from
     ics.uci.edu   (128.195.1.1)   on   the   west   coast,   and   from
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) in between.

     On prep.ai.mit.edu the protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 patch kit
     is  located  in  the pub/gnu subdirectory of the home directory for
     anonymous  FTP.   Contact  for  help  with   FTP   transfers   from
     prep.ai.mit.edu is Joe Turner <cutter at ai.mit.edu>.

     On ics.uci.edu the protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 patch kit  is
     located  in  the  ftp/gnu  subdirectory  of  the home directory for
     anonymous  FTP.   Contact  for  help  with   FTP   transfers   from
     ics.uci.edu is <gnu at ics.uci.edu>.

     On tut.cis.ohio-state.edu the  protoize/unprotoize  version  1.39.0
     patch  kit  is  located in the pub/gnu/protoize subdirectory of the
     home directory for  anonymous  FTP.   Contact  for  help  with  FTP
     transfers  from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu is <uucp at cis.ohio-state.edu>
     or ...!osu-cis!uucp.

     Protoize/unprotoize  version  1.39.0  can  also  be  obtained   via
     anonymous  UUCP from osu-cis.  Contact for help with UUCP transfers
     from  osu-cis  is  <uucp at cis.ohio-state.edu>  or  ...!osu-cis!uucp.
     Instructions for anonymous UUCP transfers from osu-cis are given at
     the end of this file.

     My thanks to Joe Turner, Bryan Dunlap, and that special  person  at
     UCI  for  making  the  protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 patch kit
     available in the U. S.


                            European Availability

     Protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 is available via  anonymous  FTP
     from    mizar.docs.uu.se   (130.238.4.1)   in   Sweden   and   from
     archive.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.5) in the Netherlands.

     On mizar.docs.uu.se the protoize/unprotoize  version  1.39.0  patch
     kit  is  located in the ftp/pub/gnu subdirectory of the home direc-
     tory for anonymous FTP.  Contact for help with FTP  transfers  from
     mizar.docs.uu.se is Ove Ewerlid <ewerlid at mizar.docs.uu.se>.

     On archive.cs.ruu.nl the protoize/unprotoize 1.39.0  patch  kit  is
     located  in  the ftp/pub/GNU subdirectory of the home directory for
     anonymous FTP.  Contact for help with anonymous FTP transfers  from
     archive.cs.ruu.nl is Edwin Kremer <edwin at cs.ruu.nl>.

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     protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 patch kit from the Rijks Univer-
     siteit  Utrecht   by   sending   an   email   message   to   <mail-
     server at cs.ruu.nl> with the following contents:

               path <your_valid_return_address>
               btoa
               send GNU/protoize-1.39.0.Z
               end

     Leave out the line with "btoa" if you  prefer  uuencoding.   Please
     use a domain-based return address, or you may loose out.

     My thanks to Ove  Ewerlid  and  to  Edwin  Kremer  for  making  the
     protoize/unprotoize version 1.39.0 patch kit available in Europe.


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