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GCC-XML (Score:0)

by slanning (5049)

It doesn't work 100% with plain C, but I used GCC-XML [gccxml.org] a bit with one of my C++ bindings [cpan.org] (look in the genscripts directory; they are very hacky, though, and far from comprehensive; a lot of work to do there...). Maybe there is something similar for plain C.
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  by potyl (8582)
  
  Thanks for the pointer! I will take a look at the program.
  At the time I though one of writing a parser for C header files and XS files, but I didn't find a grammar module in CPAN that was convincing enough. Now that Damian Conway has released Regexp::Grammars [cpan.org] I guess that the job could be easier.
  Although, I did find an advantage in scanning the .so libraries. As it clearly shows which functions are made "public" in the C API. It's nice for finding "private" functions that haven't declared as static.

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