Automatic converters (K&R C => ANSI C) (K&R C => C++) (ANSI C => K&R C)

7103_300 at uwovax.uwo.ca 7103_300 at uwovax.uwo.ca
Sat Oct 28 13:24:21 AEST 1989


In article <1004 at cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi at sunseeker.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> What I really need is a tool that takes either
> 
>      int xyz(char *c, FILE *f);
> 
> or
> 
>      int xyz();
> 
> and produces:
> 
>      #ifdef ANSIPROTO
>       int xyz(char *c, FILE *f);
>      #else
>       int xyz();
>      #endif

I posted such a tool (mkproto) to comp.sources.misc a while back; it
produces
	int xyz P((char *c, FILE *f))
along with an appropriate definition for P. Mkproto has some limitations,
but it works well on most "common" code (e.g. I used it to produce
prototypes for Omega, with no problems).



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