Extracting undefined identifiers

[nd.sundar]

Hi,
I have a collection of C source files (.c and .h). I need to find
all identifiers which are used in that collection but not defined
within the collection. The identifiers include pre-processor macros/
defines, structure types, and variable/function names. Thus, if a file
uses a symbol A but no file in the collection defines A, then A should
appear in the list.

ctags comes close, but its -x option produces only a list of defined
symbols. The undefined symbols don't appear in the cross-reference.

cscope conveniently builds a database of all identifiers. Is there any
way to coax cscope to print out the undefined symbols?

Thanks very much!

Regards,
Sundar.

[vippstar]

On Nov 7, 8:41 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi,
I have a collection of C source files (.c and .h). I need to find
all identifiers which are used in that collection but not defined
within the collection. The identifiers include pre-processor macros/
defines, structure types, and variable/function names. Thus, if a file
uses a symbol A but no file in the collection defines A, then A should
appear in the list.

ctags comes close, but its -x option produces only a list of defined
symbols. The undefined symbols don't appear in the cross-reference.

cscope conveniently builds a database of all identifiers. Is there any
way to coax cscope to print out the undefined symbols?

This is quite off-topic. I can't think of an on-topic group.
You said ctags produces a list of defined identifiers, and cscope
produces a database of all the identifiers...
cscope - ctags = what you want.

[CBFalconer]

nd*******@gmail.com wrote:

>
I have a collection of C source files (.c and .h). I need to find
all identifiers which are used in that collection but not defined
within the collection. The identifiers include pre-processor
macros/ defines, structure types, and variable/function names.
Thus, if a file uses a symbol A but no file in the collection
defines A, then A should appear in the list.

Look for a cross-reference tool that can scan a herd of files,
including .h files, and can detect and mark definitions. I used to
have one, but I lost the sources in a disk crash and have never
reworked it. That version usually required recompilation to handle
big sources, which wouldn't be needed today.

This is OT on c.l.c, and I don't know what group to recommend.

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