Re: Finding all typedefs

[Josh Triplett <josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:45 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:01 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I asked Linus about 3 years ago for something that would dump
> > global data sizes.  It's attached (updated to recent sparse;
> > it also has '-keywords' to warn about using C++ keywords, but you
> > can ignore/delete that part).  It may be fixable to do what you want,
> > although I have no info on sparse symbol struct contents.
> > Or maybe Josh et al can do what you want rather easily... :)
> 
> Sorry for delay.  Thank you!  I'm not sure I can reuse anything from
> that code to dump typedefs.
> 
> My point is, I want to write a script that would use existing software
> to produce checkpatch.pl conforming code.  If I need to hack anything,
> I'd rather contribute to indent or astyle.  In fact, it would be a much
> better approach to recognize argument lists and format them differently,
> rather than deal with a list of typedefs.
> 
> I hoped that c2xml would give me typedefs, but it doesn't.

It certainly should; I didn't realize that it didn't.  I'll look into it
and see if I can change that.

CCing Rob (the author of c2xml) to see if he has any thoughts on this.

- Josh Triplett