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From: Josh Whitehouse
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:59
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:59
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I posted this once, but it disappeared. Oh well.
I have a project I inherited with ~300,000 lines of sloppy non ANSI C code
in about 250 files. I want to make this code ANSI compliant in preparation
for a conversion to C++, at which point, hopefully, I can reuse much of this
code. In switching to GNUC gcc version 2.4.5 from the SUN C compiler under
SunOs 4.1.1, I discovered protoize, which does a great job of generating
ANSI function declarations for old C code. However, it doesn't do two
things I would like it to, or I am missing some options.
a) generate a prototype at the top of a source file if a function
is used/explicitly declared before the true declaration at the
beginning of a function.
Example:
(before protoize)
void foo() {
bar();
};
static void bar() {
};
(after protoize)
void foo(void) {
bar();
}
static bar(void) {
};
There is no prototype, even using the -l option with protoize, and
the compiler still bitches.
b) detect a function declaration with the wrong return type.
Example:
foo() {
long l;
return l;
};
this isn't caught by protoize, either. I haven't run it through
lint to see the results there, but I am sure lint will catch it.
It would be very time consuming to do ~250 modules by hand, so I was wondering
if there was something to help with this along with protoize... Any suggestions?
All advice appreciated.
JOSH
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,184ee68ef8c59032,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-08-20 09:30:43 PST Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!psinntp!lehman.com!phoenix!josh From: josh@phoenix.shearson.com (Josh Whitehouse) Subject: protoize Message-ID: <1993Aug20.145911.22248@lehman.com> Sender: news@lehman.com (News) Reply-To: josh@phoenix.shearson.com Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:59:11 GMT Lines: 55