Hi monks!

I am more into C than perl - (sorry, but I have to) - and feel like I need the power of perl now.

I have a large set of C source files, and need to empty out all the function bodies - but just the bodies. Everything else should be left untouched.

Does anybody know a quick way to do that?

I read the C::Scan library and it can extract quite a lot of structures out of a c file. The thing is, not to delete anything, except the function bodies. Ok, it offers structs like:

defines_args fdecls, etc. and one would be able to print those. But the order is important, and the printed output should include everything.

I need to change this: 

#define IN_LIBXML
#include "libxml.h"
struct _xmlLink
{
    struct _xmlLink *next;
    struct _xmlLink *prev;
    void *data;
};
static int xmlLinkCompare(const void *data0, const void *data1);
static int 
xmlLinkCompare(const void *data0, 
               const void *data1)
{
    if (data0 < data1)
        return (-1);
    else if (data0 == data1)
        return (0);
    return (1);
}

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into: 

#define IN_LIBXML
#include "libxml.h"
struct _xmlLink
{
    struct _xmlLink *next;
    struct _xmlLink *prev;
    void *data;
};
static int xmlLinkCompare(const void *data0, const void *data1);
static int 
xmlLinkCompare(const void *data0, 
               const void *data1)
{
}

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Any suggestions??

Frank

In reply to empty out C function bodies by biocc

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