Standard library tags

Question

I use tag files for code completion and for a quick, inline view of parameters, overloads, files (where declared), etc. Where can I find freely available tags for the C99, C++03, and C++0x standard libraries? (C89 would be better than nothing, but I'd rather have C99.)

I prefer tags without cruft; e.g. implementations use reserved names for parameters, so instead of "std::min(_M_a, _M_b)", I'd rather see "std::min(a, b)". This and other issues rule out generating from actual implementations. Though I suppose some postprocessing might clean those up (especially the identifier issue), it almost seems like it would be easier to write from scratch.

Answer 1

generate yourself a tag library using ctags on headers dir, like written in the post blog you link in your question

Answer 2

This is not a complete answer. Someone published a perl script to extract tags from SGI's STL documentation. It does not include function parameter names. Since it works on the documentation there is no cruft. Hope this helps a bit.

Answer 3

Generally it is difficult to extract tags from libc because function declarations are likely to be implemented in the headers as complex macros. One can use nm to find a list of symbols exported by the a library, but that doesn't address the parameter list.

I think the best solution here is to parse the documentation:

Here is a list of all functions and macros exported by libc in an easily parsed format:

http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Function-Index.html#Function-Index

Each function links to a page that lists the parameters for that function, also in a predictable format:

http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Block-Input_002fOutput.html#index-fread-1010

Parsing the pages are pretty easy using BeautifulSoup Python module.

Answer 4

For those exact requirements you will probably have to create those yourself :(