使用GNU工具链从文件解析c ++函数头

Question

I need to parse function headers from a .i file used by SWIG which contains all sorts of garbage beside the function headers. (final output would be a list of function declarations)
The best option for me would be using the GNU toolchain (GCC, Binutils, etc..) to do so, but i might be missing an easy way of doing it with SWIG. If I am please tell me!
Thanks :]

edit: I also don't know how to do that with GCC toolchain, if you have an idea it will be great.

Answer 1

I would try getting an XML dump of the abstract syntax tree either from clang or from gccxml . From there you can easily extract the function declarations you are interested in.

Answer 2

Our DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit provides general purpose program parsing, analysis, and transformation capability. It has front ends for a wide variety of languages, including C++.

It has been used to analyze and transforms very complex C++ programs and their header files.

You aren't clear as to what you will do after you "parse the function headers"; normally people want to extract some information or produce another artifact. DMS with its C++ front end can do the parsing; you can configure DMS to do the custom stuff.

As a practical matter, this isn't usually an afternoon's exercise; DMS is a complex beast, because it has to deal with complex beasts such as C++. And I'd expect you to face the same kind of complexity for any tool that can handle C++. The GCC toolchain can clearly handle C++, so you might be able to do it with that (at that same level of complexity) but GCC is designed to be a compiler, and IMHO you will find it a fight to get it do what you want.

Your "output function declarations" goal isn't clear. You want just the function names? You want a function signature? You want all the type declarations on which the function depends? You want all the type declarations on which the function depends, if they are not already present in an existing include file you intend to use?

Answer 3

The best way to extract function decls from the garbage which is C header files is to substitute out what constitutes the most smelly garbage: macros. You can do that with:

   cpp - The C Preprocessor