anybody know of software that can clean up C code?

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 4:43 pm

Seems like everybody is posting in News etc, the ghetto is all empty.

I am begging does anybody know a good piece of software that can clean up C code.

I cant beg enough.

I will die soon please help.

by **cstaylor** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:32 pm

Do you mean a pretty-printer? Or something smarter that will take spaghetti and turn it into something Kernighan would be proud of?

And why are you writing in C? Are you a student, are you writing for hardware, or do you just like painful programming languages? :?:

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:47 pm

Yes I am a student , i am kinda writing for hardware, but it is a kinda interface. and it seems i always get stuck with painful languages. what a sorrowful life

by **cstaylor** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:49 pm

Well, you didn't answer what kind of converter you need. Are you talking about a pretty printer or something that will convert code?

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:06 pm

I need something that will convert crapy code, ie full of goto statments and it is full of unefficient statment and i want rid of them. something that will make the code more efficient.

by **cstaylor** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:52 pm

Searched google, couldn't find anything. How many lines of code are you talking about? You'd probably be better off walking through it yourself.

Gotos? Did you have the programmer who wrote that code shot?

by **Big Booger** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:46 am

Try a program called 'lint'
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~manuals/programming/sun/c-compiler/user_guide/lint.doc.html

I found a similar program as lint is rather dated:

http://www.gimpel.com/index.html

Hope that helps.

by **cstaylor** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:37 am

Big Booger: not sure if that will work (Lint is a static analyzer, not a code generator). The code is correct, just ugly.

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:32 am

Thanks if the input both of you. I wish i could shoot the guy for all the goto's but unfortunatly I cant find him lol... Anyway if there is no software that will get rid of gotos. how can i work around them. the liberaries are full of them. I just want to remove them from the lib's but without editing the main code.

I really havnt a clue lol...

by **Big Booger** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:48 am

Think you are going to have to hit this the manual style. I've searched for a software that searches for specific statements and removes them automatically, but I came up nil.

I thought you were having issues with the code.. I didn't know you just wanted to optimize it. Guess I should have read your first post a little more carefully.

I'll keep looking and will post if I find anything.

This site looks promising:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/compilerconstruction.shtml

There are a few tools there that may get the job done.. not too sure about it though.

How many lines of code are we talking about here? 1000's or 100000's?

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anybody know of software that can clean up C code?

anybody know of software that can clean up C code?

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