webster@marble.SW.MCC.COM (Dallas Webster) (06/03/88)
I hate to jump into the middle of a newsgroup and ask a
question that has probably been covered before, but ...
I'm looking for a program that extracts "data dictionary"
type of information from C programs, e.g., syntactic things
such as functions, globals, typedefs, macros, call and
reference graphs. Although I don't expect it to extract
semantics (although I would not complain if it did), I
would like it to preserve the precious little hints of
high-level semantics that exist in C programs, e.g., comments
and #define's. I am aware of commercial offerings such as
TekCASE and Re/Source, and of commercial research such as
MicroScope and DynamicDesign. Is there anything in the
public domain? I know only of the C Information Abstractor
at Berkeley, and am trying to contact Chen and Ramamoorthy in
it's regard. I'd prefer source in C or Common Lisp for the
Sun, but anything that provides access to the data dictionary
would be okay.
Dallas
P.S.: Go ahead. Embarrass me by telling me that all I need
is the cdd (or whatever) command that is available in UNIX!
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