Re: Declaration, Definition & Reference listers for C

Have you tried ctags and its multiple variants ?


In any case, you don't have to write a C preprocessor yourself. You
can use an existing one, and use it as a first pass to your own
parsers.


Alternatively, you might consider using
RainCode (http://www.raincode.com) for C, which is freely available
and which parses C programs. You can write a small script to extract
the info you need from the parse tree (40 lines max), or alternatively,
use the canonic XML representation, which is pragmatic but
probably too large for most XML parsers out there.


Darius.




John Carter wrote:
> I'm interested in the large scale structure of very large programs (1000's
> of files)
>
> So to experiment with this I need to extract every {typedef, struct,
> union, enum, macro, variable and function} {declaration, definition and
> reference} from 1000's of C files.
>
> Anybody know of a tool to parse standard C and spit out this information?

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