Re: Tools to "prettify" source code

Eric Brown <ericbr@oz.net> wrote:
> michael.stumpfl@jkh.uni-linz.ac.at says...


> Along the same lines, I've been looking for something similar to the
> old Unix program tgrind or vgrind - you feed it source code, and out
> pops a beautifully formatted document ready to print, in TeX or
> (preferably) PostScript.


Then you sure should give GNU enscript a try. It's an ASCII-to-PS tool
at first sight, but it also knows how to process C and quite some
other languages. Nothing overly fancy --- it's based on regexp's, and
we all know that regexp's aren't powerful enough to fully grasp the
syntax of C --- but it works nicely, most of the time.


> programming tools and documentation tools, but for doing a code
> review, nothing beats a nicely formatted printout.


I'd say a good online analysis tools should be able to beat it, but
that's personal preference...


> [What's wrong with vgrind? It's still around. -John]


Right, but it also has some problems. At least the version I've been
using needs a special layout of function heads to be able to find
them. It's not very nice having to reformat the sources you're trying
to review, just to get a fully functional printout. And you can
easily confuse it to kingdom come with a multiline macro definition,
IIRC.
--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de)

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