Re: Proposal: convert function definitions to prototyped form

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Eric Bachalo wrote:
> 
> "J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com> writes:
> > Kevin> I noticed that.  The space was put there by ``indent''.  I
> > Kevin> would very much like to get rid of that space and it would be
> > Kevin> easy to make the perl script postprocess the ``indent'' output.
> > Kevin> But in doing so, we (obviously) generate different output than
> > Kevin> that of ``indent''.
> > Kevin>
> > Kevin> I suppose the other solution is to fix indent.  :-)
> >
> > You can tell indent about all the types defined by typedef with -T
> > option, and then it won't add the extra space.  It shouldn't be too
> > difficult to identify all the types.
> >
> > It might be useful for us to maintain an indent.pro file that has
> > these definitions so that additional runs of indent don't add back
> > the space.
> 
> I believe etags does a fairly good job a finding typedefs.  I would be a
> fairly simple script to parse the TAGS file to make a list of all typedefs.  I
> have a python script for this.  Not sure how ported etags and python are for
> all the hosts that compile GDB though.

As a guide, check the list in:

http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/standards_45.html

	Andrew