unifdef(1) [opensolaris man page]
unifdef(1) User Commands unifdef(1) NAME
unifdef - resolve and remove ifdef'ed lines from C program source SYNOPSIS
unifdef [-clt] [-Dname] [-Uname] [-iDname] [-iUname] ... [filename] DESCRIPTION
unifdef removes ifdefed lines from a file while otherwise leaving the file alone. It is smart enough to deal with the nested ifdefs, com- ments, single and double quotes of C syntax, but it does not do any including or interpretation of macros. Neither does it strip out com- ments, though it recognizes and ignores them. You specify which symbols you want defined with -D options, and which you want undefined with -U options. Lines within those ifdefs will be copied to the output, or removed, as appropriate. Any ifdef, ifndef, else, and endif lines associated with filename will also be removed. ifdefs involving symbols you do not specify are untouched and copied out along with their associated ifdef, else, and endiff1 lines. If an ifdefX occurs nested inside another ifdefX, then the inside ifdef is treated as if it were an unrecognized symbol. If the same symbol appears in more than one argument, only the first occurrence is significant. unifdef copies its output to the standard output and will take its input from the standard input if no filename argument is given. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -c Complement the normal operation. Lines that would have been removed or blanked are retained, and vice versa. -l Replace ``lines removed'' lines with blank lines. -t Plain text option. unifdef refrains from attempting to recognize comments and single and double quotes. -Dname Lines associated with the defined symbol name. -Uname Lines associated with the undefined symbol name. -iDname Ignore, but print out, lines associated with the defined symbol name. If you use ifdefs to delimit non-C lines, such as comments or code which is under construction, then you must tell unifdef which symbols are used for that purpose so that it will not try to parse for quotes and comments within them. -iUname Ignore, but print out, lines associated with the undefined symbol name. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful operation. 1 Operation failed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWbtool | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
diff(1), attributes(5) DIAGNOSTICS
Premature EOF Inappropriate else or endif. SunOS 5.11 14 Jan 1992 unifdef(1)
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UNIFDEF(1) BSD General Commands Manual UNIFDEF(1) NAME
unifdef, unifdefall -- remove preprocessor conditionals from code SYNOPSIS
unifdef [-cdeklnst] [-Ipath] [-Dsym[=val]] [-Usym] [-iDsym[=val]] [-iUsym] ... [file] unifdefall [-Ipath] ... file DESCRIPTION
The unifdef utility selectively processes conditional cpp(1) directives. It removes from a file both the directives and any additional text that they specify should be removed, while otherwise leaving the file alone. The unifdef utility acts on #if, #ifdef, #ifndef, #elif, #else, and #endif lines, and it understands only the commonly-used subset of the expression syntax for #if and #elif lines. It handles integer values of symbols defined on the command line, the defined() operator applied to symbols defined or undefined on the command line, the operators !, <, >, <=, >=, ==, !=, &&, ||, and parenthesized expressions. Anything that it does not understand is passed through unharmed. It only processes #ifdef and #ifndef directives if the symbol is specified on the command line, otherwise they are also passed through unchanged. By default, it ignores #if and #elif lines with constant expressions, or they may be processed by specifying the -k flag on the command line. The unifdef utility also understands just enough about C to know when one of the directives is inactive because it is inside a comment, or affected by a backslash-continued line. It spots unusually-formatted preprocessor directives and knows when the layout is too odd to handle. A script called unifdefall can be used to remove all conditional cpp(1) directives from a file. It uses unifdef -s and cpp -dM to get lists of all the controlling symbols and their definitions (or lack thereof), then invokes unifdef with appropriate arguments to process the file. Available options: -Dsym[=val] Specify that a symbol is defined, and optionally specify what value to give it for the purpose of handling #if and #elif directives. -Usym Specify that a symbol is undefined. If the same symbol appears in more than one argument, the last occurrence dominates. -c If the -c flag is specified, then the operation of unifdef is complemented, i.e., the lines that would have been removed or blanked are retained and vice versa. -d Turn on printing of degugging messages. -e Because unifdef processes its input one line at a time, it cannot remove preprocessor directives that span more than one line. The most common example of this is a directive with a multi-line comment hanging off its right hand end. By default, if unifdef has to process such a directive, it will complain that the line is too obfuscated. The -e option changes the behaviour so that, where pos- sible, such lines are left unprocessed instead of reporting an error. -k Process #if and #elif lines with constant expressions. By default, sections controlled by such lines are passed through unchanged because they typically start ``#if 0'' and are used as a kind of comment to sketch out future or past development. It would be rude to strip them out, just as it would be for normal comments. -l Replace removed lines with blank lines instead of deleting them. -n Add #line directives to the output following any deleted lines, so that errors produced when compiling the output file correspond to line numbers in the input file. -s Instead of processing the input file as usual, this option causes unifdef to produce a list of symbols that appear in expressions that unifdef understands. It is useful in conjunction with the -dM option of cpp(1) for creating unifdef command lines. -t Disables parsing for C comments and line continuations, which is useful for plain text. -iDsym[=val] -iUsym Ignore #ifdefs. If your C code uses #ifdefs to delimit non-C lines, such as comments or code which is under construction, then you must tell unifdef which symbols are used for that purpose so that it will not try to parse comments and line continuations inside those #ifdefs. One specifies ignored symbols with -iDsym[=val] and -iUsym similar to -Dsym[=val] and -Usym above. -Ipath Specifies to unifdefall an additional place to look for #include files. This option is ignored by unifdef for compatibility with cpp(1) and to simplify the implementation of unifdefall. The unifdef utility copies its output to stdout and will take its input from stdin if no file argument is given. The unifdef utility works nicely with the -Dsym option of diff(1). EXIT STATUS
The unifdef utility exits 0 if the output is an exact copy of the input, 1 if not, and 2 if in trouble. DIAGNOSTICS
Too many levels of nesting. Inappropriate #elif, #else or #endif. Obfuscated preprocessor control line. Premature EOF (with the line number of the most recent unterminated #if). EOF in comment. SEE ALSO
cpp(1), diff(1) HISTORY
The unifdef command appeared in 2.9BSD. ANSI C support was added in FreeBSD 4.7. AUTHORS
This implementation was originally written by Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>. Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> rewrote it to support ANSI C. BUGS
Expression evaluation is very limited. Preprocessor control lines split across more than one physical line (because of comments or backslash-newline) cannot be handled in every situation. Trigraphs are not recognized. There is no support for symbols with different definitions at different points in the source file. The text-mode and ignore functionality does not correspond to modern cpp(1) behaviour. BSD
September 24, 2002 BSD