Hi all, is there any tool that can parse a valid C program and generate a report which contains list of functions, global variables, #define constants, local variables in each function etc. ...
Can anyone suggest me a helpful programming language which can be used to create a tool which will analyse the given C program and generate a txt report or html report containing information about the given program (function list, variable list etc). The program I intend to build is similar to doxygen but i want it for my personal use. ...
Anyone knows how to remove a USB drive using the win32 API? I do a lot of work on embedded systems and on one of these I have to copy my programs on a usb-stick an insert it into the target hardware. Since I mostly work on the console I don't like to use the mouse and click on the small task-bar icon hundret times a day. I'd love to w...
I'm used to work with SourceInsight for windows which works great, shows caller and callee for each function, shows the content of a function the cursor is on and smartly auto-completes symbols across project. I don't feel like falling into the long learning curve of vim/emacs. I want productivity and I want it fast (I don't mean a cons...
While incremental linking addresses much of the time spent linking, even for very large projects, I find the incremental linker in MSVS to be pretty haphazard. (I'm currently using 2003 atm, would love to hear if 2005/8 addressed any of this.) My list of known triggers include: changing anything external to the main .exe project will...
When {0} is used to initialize an object in C/C++, what does it mean? I can't find any references to {0} anywhere, and because of the curly braces Google searches are not helpful. Example code: SHELLEXECUTEINFO sexi = {0}; sexi.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO); sexi.hwnd = NULL; sexi.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS; sexi.lpFile = lpFi...
I have heard of some methods, but none of them have stuck. Personally I try to avoid complex types in C and try to break them into component typedef. I'm now faced with maintaining some legacy code from a so called 'three star programmer', and I'm having a hard time reading some of the ***code[][]. How do you read complex C declaration...
You do AssignProcessToJobObject and it fails with "access denied" but only when you are running in the debugger. Why is this? ...
I have added some code which compiles cleanly and have just received this Windows error: --------------------------- (MonTel Administrator) 2.12.7: MtAdmin.exe - Application Error --------------------------- The exception Privileged instruction. (0xc0000096) occurred in the application at location 0x00486752. I am about to go on a ...
What is the easiest cross platform widget toolkit? that minimally covers Windows, osx, and Linux with a c or c++ interface? ...
For an Open Source project, I'd like to allow people to test the application via WEB to see if it's what they were looking for. The application is in C but I've not found a free hosting that would allow me to upload my application. The reason why in general they don't allow to do it is rather obvious but maybe there's an OS-friendly se...
I have a large inherited C/C++ project. Are there any good tools or techniques to produce a report on the "sizeof" of all the datatypes, and a breakdown of the stack footprints of each function in such a project. ...
AKA - What's this obsession with pointers? Having only really used modern, object oriented languages like ActionScript, Java and C#, I don't really understand the importance of pointers and what you use them for. What am I missing out on here? ...
I've always wondered this - why can't you declare variables after a case label in a switch statement? In C++ you can declare variables pretty much anywhere (and declaring them close to first use is obviously a good thing) but the following still won't work: switch (val) { case VAL: // This won't work int newVal = 42; brea...
When refactoring away some #defines I came across declarations similar to the following in a C++ header file: static const unsigned int VAL = 42; const unsigned int ANOTHER_VAL = 37; The question is, what difference, if any, will the static make? Note that multiple inclusion of the headers isn't possible due to the classic #ifndef HE...
In what segment (.BSS, .DATA, other) of an executable file are static variables stored so that they don't have name collision? For example: foo.c: bar.c: static int foo = 1; static int foo = 10; void fooTest() { void barTest() { static int bar = 2; static int bar = 20; foo...
It looks quite easy to find such a tool for Java (Checkstyle, JCSC), but I can't seem to find one for C/C++. I am not looking for a lint-like static code analyzer, I only would like to check against coding standards like variable naming, capitalization, spacing, identation, bracket placement, and so on. ...
We are starting a new project based a microchip PIC18F252. What is the best 'c' compiler to use? ...
For example, if I declare a long variable, can I assume it will always be aligned on a "sizeof(long)" boundary? Microsoft Visual C++ online help says so, but is it standard behavior? some more info: a. It is possible to explicitely create a misaligned integer (*bar): char foo[5] int * bar = (int *)(&foo[1]); b. Apparently, #...
When someone talks about a variables storage class specifier, what are they talking about? They also often talk about variable linkage in the same context, what is that? ...