Refactoring

[kawshik]

Does anyone here know of a tool that will let me remove global variable from a source code ?
I understand that removing global variable will affect the semantics of the code but this is for a different analysis purpose.

Your help is much appreiciated !

Thanks

[robwhit]

notepad works. use the delete or backspace keys. do you mean something different than this?

[kawshik]

notepad works. use the delete or backspace keys. do you mean something different than this?

Yes I dont want to replace the variable of update the variable name. I mean I want to get rid of the global variable from the source code. That is no existance of the global variable. For exammple:

int x =5;         >>>>>>>>>>>  this line will be removed.

int main {
a =x;     >>>>>> this line will be replaced by a =1

}

so the code will still complie. It might not do what it was intended for but it will compile.

[Brad0407]

edit/replace

replace
x
with
1

Works in any good text editor.

[robwhit]

if the variable is just used in the main function, just move it to inside the main braces.

[kawshik]

Its not that simple. Suppose i wanted to remove a global variable from a 15000 line code ? How do i go about doing that. Replace and edit wont work cause a variable can have an assignment or a usage.

I want a tool that can differentiate. Some some of tool that does parser based transformation

[robwhit]

it depends how it's used. do you know how it's used?

[zacs7]

Learn regular expressions then. But I still don't see the point in what your trying to do, nor how the code is going to run after you've edited it :|

[Adak]

Does anyone here know of a tool that will let me remove global variable from a source code ?
I understand that removing global variable will affect the semantics of the code but this is for a different analysis purpose.

Your help is much appreiciated !

Thanks

Well, you won't probably appreciate the answer!

What you want could be done by a smart program using logical inferences, but only on a simple program.

There is no program or tool that will reliably handle long and complex code, replacing all the global variables with local one's, and still leave a code with the same functionality.

That's what a programmer does, not a program.

Although the program may be 15,000 lines long, the real questions are:

1) Do you understand the code?
2) How many global variables does it have?
3) How many functions does it have that need access to one or more global variables?

You'll probably find that the task is not as difficult as you believed, but you will have to have some programming skills to make these changes. No way around it that I'm aware of.

[iMalc]

Yes I dont want to replace the variable of update the variable name. I mean I want to get rid of the global variable from the source code. That is no existance of the global variable. For exammple:

int x =5;         >>>>>>>>>>>  this line will be removed.

int main {
a =x;     >>>>>> this line will be replaced by a =1

}

so the code will still complie. It might not do what it was intended for but it will compile.

In that case, the best thing to do would be to just put a const in front of the declaration.
Hey it still gets rid of the global variable, because it becomes a global constant instead!

[zacs7]

And what about, something like:

#include <stdio.h>

FILE * thingy = stdin;

int main(void)
{
    fprintf(thingy, "Hello");
    return 0;	
}

or:

#include <stdio.h>

int x = 5;

void DoSomething(void);

int main(void)
{
    printf("x = &#37;d\n", x);
    DoSomething();
    printf("x = %d\n", x);
    return 0;	
}

void DoSomething(void)
{
    x = 10;
    return;
}

Which should print:

x = 5
x = 10

I don't see how that'll work if you get rid of globals (ie move X's scope).

[robwhit]

you could write it as a local variable in main and then just throw its address around to wherever you want it, but that's likely to be hackery and have worse performance than using globals.

[Salem]

Wasn't this same question asked some time ago?

Anyway, try these
http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html
http://hal.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/

[zacs7]

Still, your not going to do it very easily. If you manage to do it via regex's, I'd like to see how complex the expression is