How to eliminate irrelevant conditionals?

Hello,

I am trying to read source code for an editor (Vim, available at sourceforge.net) but I find the plethora of precompiler conditionals very confusing (see code below). Virtually all "portable" source code has this problem. Is there a program that will eliminate the irrelevant (to my configuration) conditional code, yet keep the important stuff (like comments).

Thank you.

p.s. I use the MingW gcc compiler.

Code:

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#if defined(MSDOS) || defined(WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)
# include <io.h>                /* for close() and dup() */
#endif

#define EXTERN
#include "vim.h"

#ifdef SPAWNO
# include <spawno.h>                /* special MSDOS swapping library */
#endif

#ifdef HAVE_FCNTL_H
# include <fcntl.h>
#endif

#ifdef __CYGWIN__
# ifndef WIN32
#  include <sys/cygwin.h>        /* for cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() */
# endif
# include <limits.h>
#endif

#if defined(UNIX) || defined(VMS)
static int file_owned __ARGS((char *fname));
#endif
static void mainerr __ARGS((int, char_u *));
static void main_msg __ARGS((char *s));
static void usage __ARGS((void));
static int get_number_arg __ARGS((char_u *p, int *idx, int def));
static void main_start_gui __ARGS((void));
#if defined(FEAT_GUI_DIALOG) || defined(FEAT_CON_DIALOG)
static void check_swap_exists_action __ARGS((void));
#endif
#ifdef FEAT_CLIENTSERVER
static void cmdsrv_main __ARGS((int *argc, char **argv, char_u *serverName_arg, char_u **serverStr));
static char_u *serverMakeName __ARGS((char_u *arg, char *cmd));
#endif

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Quote:

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Is there a program that will eliminate the irrelevant (to my configuration) conditional code, yet keep the important stuff (like comments).

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So you want to remove all #includes and #defines etc but keep the comments?

You can write your own program to do this. (Or you can do it by hand.)

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main(void) {
    char s[BUFSIZ], *p;

    while(fgets(s, sizeof(s), stdin)) {
        p = s;
        while(isspace(*p)) p ++;
        if(*p != '#') {
            printf("%s", s);
        }
    }
}

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And to use it:

Code:

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C:\DWK\C>copy con simple.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    return 0;  /* comment */
}
^Z
    1 file(s) copied
C:\DWK\C>remove_hash < simple.c > simple_nohash.txt

C:\DWK\C>type simple_nohash.txt

int main(void) {
    return 0;  /* comment */
}

C:\DWK\C>

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You can use the -E option in gcc to run the preprocessor on the file. Note this will cause some problems because it will bring all those included files into your file.

And it will remove comments.

How about this perl wonder?

The test input file

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#if defined(FOO)
#define VAR 1
#elif defined(BAR)
#define VAR 2
#else
#define VAR 4
#endif

int main()
{
  printf("%d\n", VAR);  /* what option did we choose ? */
  return 0;
}

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Which we would compile with
gcc -DFOO foo.c

Using this perl program to process it, with a little help from gcc

Code:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Invoke with the command line you would normally use
# to compile the program.
# Eg. gcc -DFOO foo.c
# Presently assumes only ONE filename, and it's the last argument

# -P - don't include lines
# -E - preprocess only
# -C - don't delete comments

my $filename = $ARGV[$#ARGV];      # the input file
my $tempfile = "$$" . "_$filename"; # a temporary file
#print "$filename $tempfile\n";
$ARGV[$#ARGV] = "";

my $cmdline = join(' ',@ARGV);      # the rest of the compiler command line
$cmdline .= " -P -E -C ";          # appended with the CPP magic
#print "$cmdline\n";

# copy the source code to a temp file, protecting all
# non-conditional hash directives with comments
open IFH,"$filename" or die "oops\n";
open OFH,">$tempfile" or die "oops\n";
while ( <IFH> ) {
  chomp;
  if ( /^\s*#/ ) {    # some kind of pre-process directive
    if ( ! /^\s*#\s*(if|elif|else|endif)/i ) {
      # not a conditional, hide in a comment for now
      $_ = "/*!!" . $_ . "!!*/";
    }
  }
  print OFH "$_\n";
}
close IFH;
close OFH;

# run the command, and filter the output
open IFH,"$cmdline $tempfile|" or die "oops\n";
while ( <IFH> ) {
  chomp;
  s/\/\*!!//g;    # strip out the comments used
  s/!!\*\///g;    # as guards in the previous step.
  print "$_\n";
}
close IFH;

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We can run this command, and get this output

Code:

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$ ./uncond.pl gcc -DFOO foo.c


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>


#define VAR 1






int main()
{
  printf("%d\n", VAR); /* what option did we choose ? */
  return 0;
}

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Deleting the extra blank lines left by the pre-processor as it deletes stuff is left as an exercise for the reader :)

My code already does that. :)

Your's rips out all preprocessor commands
It does not for example
- preserve #includes
- keep the #if conditional expressions which happen to be true.

Oops, you're right. I didn't realize the OP wanted to keep those in.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Salem

How about this perl wonder?

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Salem, thank you. That is sort of what I am looking for. It seems this must be an age old problem, and I'm hoping there is a good program laying around somewhere. I am trying to concentrate on C, so I don't want to get diverted and bogged down on Perl. Also, I would like the program itself to figure out what is/isn't defined and put out the correct code.

BTW, I also appreciate greatly your responses to other's questions; I always look for your posts. Quzah too, he is really good.

Thanks.

> and I'm hoping there is a good program laying around somewhere.
Probably so - maybe even written in perl ;)

> I am trying to concentrate on C, so I don't want to get diverted and bogged down on Perl
So just use it and forget about what it's written in.
It would not be too hard to write it in C or bash for that matter.

> Also, I would like the program itself to figure out what is/isn't defined and put out the correct code.
Which program would that be?
Some of the smarter IDE's out there can be told which conditionals are true/false and filter the code accordingly.