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[xemacs-hg @ 2001-09-20 06:28:42 by ben] The great integral types renaming. The purpose of this is to rationalize the names used for various integral types, so that they match their intended uses and follow consist conventions, and eliminate types that were not semantically different from each other. The conventions are: -- All integral types that measure quantities of anything are signed. Some people disagree vociferously with this, but their arguments are mostly theoretical, and are vastly outweighed by the practical headaches of mixing signed and unsigned values, and more importantly by the far increased likelihood of inadvertent bugs: Because of the broken "viral" nature of unsigned quantities in C (operations involving mixed signed/unsigned are done unsigned, when exactly the opposite is nearly always wanted), even a single error in declaring a quantity unsigned that should be signed, or even the even more subtle error of comparing signed and unsigned values and forgetting the necessary cast, can be catastrophic, as comparisons will yield wrong results. -Wsign-compare is turned on specifically to catch this, but this tends to result in a great number of warnings when mixing signed and unsigned, and the casts are annoying. More has been written on this elsewhere. -- All such quantity types just mentioned boil down to EMACS_INT, which is 32 bits on 32-bit machines and 64 bits on 64-bit machines. This is guaranteed to be the same size as Lisp objects of type `int', and (as far as I can tell) of size_t (unsigned!) and ssize_t. The only type below that is not an EMACS_INT is Hashcode, which is an unsigned value of the same size as EMACS_INT. -- Type names should be relatively short (no more than 10 characters or so), with the first letter capitalized and no underscores if they can at all be avoided. -- "count" == a zero-based measurement of some quantity. Includes sizes, offsets, and indexes. -- "bpos" == a one-based measurement of a position in a buffer. "Charbpos" and "Bytebpos" count text in the buffer, rather than bytes in memory; thus Bytebpos does not directly correspond to the memory representation. Use "Membpos" for this. -- "Char" refers to internal-format characters, not to the C type "char", which is really a byte. -- For the actual name changes, see the script below. I ran the following script to do the conversion. (NOTE: This script is idempotent. You can safely run it multiple times and it will not screw up previous results -- in fact, it will do nothing if nothing has changed. Thus, it can be run repeatedly as necessary to handle patches coming in from old workspaces, or old branches.) There are two tags, just before and just after the change: `pre-integral-type-rename' and `post-integral-type-rename'. When merging code from the main trunk into a branch, the best thing to do is first merge up to `pre-integral-type-rename', then apply the script and associated changes, then merge from `post-integral-type-change' to the present. (Alternatively, just do the merging in one operation; but you may then have a lot of conflicts needing to be resolved by hand.) Script `fixtypes.sh' follows: ----------------------------------- cut ------------------------------------ files="*.[ch] s/*.h m/*.h config.h.in ../configure.in Makefile.in.in ../lib-src/*.[ch] ../lwlib/*.[ch]" gr Memory_Count Bytecount $files gr Lstream_Data_Count Bytecount $files gr Element_Count Elemcount $files gr Hash_Code Hashcode $files gr extcount bytecount $files gr bufpos charbpos $files gr bytind bytebpos $files gr memind membpos $files gr bufbyte intbyte $files gr Extcount Bytecount $files gr Bufpos Charbpos $files gr Bytind Bytebpos $files gr Memind Membpos $files gr Bufbyte Intbyte $files gr EXTCOUNT BYTECOUNT $files gr BUFPOS CHARBPOS $files gr BYTIND BYTEBPOS $files gr MEMIND MEMBPOS $files gr BUFBYTE INTBYTE $files gr MEMORY_COUNT BYTECOUNT $files gr LSTREAM_DATA_COUNT BYTECOUNT $files gr ELEMENT_COUNT ELEMCOUNT $files gr HASH_CODE HASHCODE $files ----------------------------------- cut ------------------------------------ `fixtypes.sh' is a Bourne-shell script; it uses 'gr': ----------------------------------- cut ------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # Usage is like this: # gr FROM TO FILES ... # globally replace FROM with TO in FILES. FROM and TO are regular expressions. # backup files are stored in the `backup' directory. from="$1" to="$2" shift 2 echo ${1+"$@"} | xargs global-replace "s/$from/$to/g" ----------------------------------- cut ------------------------------------ `gr' in turn uses a Perl script to do its real work, `global-replace', which follows: ----------------------------------- cut ------------------------------------ : #-*- Perl -*- ### global-modify --- modify the contents of a file by a Perl expression ## Copyright (C) 1999 Martin Buchholz. ## Copyright (C) 2001 Ben Wing. ## Authors: Martin Buchholz <martin@xemacs.org>, Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> ## Maintainer: Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> ## Current Version: 1.0, May 5, 2001 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free # Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA # 02111-1307, USA. eval 'exec perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' if 0; use strict; use FileHandle; use Carp; use Getopt::Long; use File::Basename; (my $myName = $0) =~ s@.*/@@; my $usage=" Usage: $myName [--help] [--backup-dir=DIR] [--line-mode] [--hunk-mode] PERLEXPR FILE ... Globally modify a file, either line by line or in one big hunk. Typical usage is like this: [with GNU print, GNU xargs: guaranteed to handle spaces, quotes, etc. in file names] find . -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 $0 's/\bCONST\b/const/g'\n [with non-GNU print, xargs] find . -name '*.[ch]' -print | xargs $0 's/\bCONST\b/const/g'\n The file is read in, either line by line (with --line-mode specified) or in one big hunk (with --hunk-mode specified; it's the default), and the Perl expression is then evalled with \$_ set to the line or hunk of text, including the terminating newline if there is one. It should destructively modify the value there, storing the changed result in \$_. Files in which any modifications are made are backed up to the directory specified using --backup-dir, or to `backup' by default. To disable this, use --backup-dir= with no argument. Hunk mode is the default because it is MUCH MUCH faster than line-by-line. Use line-by-line only when it matters, e.g. you want to do a replacement only once per line (the default without the `g' argument). Conversely, when using hunk mode, *ALWAYS* use `g'; otherwise, you will only make one replacement in the entire file! "; my %options = (); $Getopt::Long::ignorecase = 0; &GetOptions ( \%options, 'help', 'backup-dir=s', 'line-mode', 'hunk-mode', ); die $usage if $options{"help"} or @ARGV <= 1; my $code = shift; die $usage if grep (-d || ! -w, @ARGV); sub SafeOpen { open ((my $fh = new FileHandle), $_[0]); confess "Can't open $_[0]: $!" if ! defined $fh; return $fh; } sub SafeClose { close $_[0] or confess "Can't close $_[0]: $!"; } sub FileContents { my $fh = SafeOpen ("< $_[0]"); my $olddollarslash = $/; local $/ = undef; my $contents = <$fh>; $/ = $olddollarslash; return $contents; } sub WriteStringToFile { my $fh = SafeOpen ("> $_[0]"); binmode $fh; print $fh $_[1] or confess "$_[0]: $!\n"; SafeClose $fh; } foreach my $file (@ARGV) { my $changed_p = 0; my $new_contents = ""; if ($options{"line-mode"}) { my $fh = SafeOpen $file; while (<$fh>) { my $save_line = $_; eval $code; $changed_p = 1 if $save_line ne $_; $new_contents .= $_; } } else { my $orig_contents = $_ = FileContents $file; eval $code; if ($_ ne $orig_contents) { $changed_p = 1; $new_contents = $_; } } if ($changed_p) { my $backdir = $options{"backup-dir"}; $backdir = "backup" if !defined ($backdir); if ($backdir) { my ($name, $path, $suffix) = fileparse ($file, ""); my $backfulldir = $path . $backdir; my $backfile = "$backfulldir/$name"; mkdir $backfulldir, 0755 unless -d $backfulldir; print "modifying $file (original saved in $backfile)\n"; rename $file, $backfile; } WriteStringToFile ($file, $new_contents); } } ----------------------------------- cut ------------------------------------ In addition to those programs, I needed to fix up a few other things, particularly relating to the duplicate definitions of types, now that some types merged with others. Specifically: 1. in lisp.h, removed duplicate declarations of Bytecount. The changed code should now look like this: (In each code snippet below, the first and last lines are the same as the original, as are all lines outside of those lines. That allows you to locate the section to be replaced, and replace the stuff in that section, verifying that there isn't anything new added that would need to be kept.) --------------------------------- snip ------------------------------------- /* Counts of bytes or chars */ typedef EMACS_INT Bytecount; typedef EMACS_INT Charcount; /* Counts of elements */ typedef EMACS_INT Elemcount; /* Hash codes */ typedef unsigned long Hashcode; /* ------------------------ dynamic arrays ------------------- */ --------------------------------- snip ------------------------------------- 2. in lstream.h, removed duplicate declaration of Bytecount. Rewrote the comment about this type. The changed code should now look like this: --------------------------------- snip ------------------------------------- #endif /* The have been some arguments over the what the type should be that specifies a count of bytes in a data block to be written out or read in, using Lstream_read(), Lstream_write(), and related functions. Originally it was long, which worked fine; Martin "corrected" these to size_t and ssize_t on the grounds that this is theoretically cleaner and is in keeping with the C standards. Unfortunately, this practice is horribly error-prone due to design flaws in the way that mixed signed/unsigned arithmetic happens. In fact, by doing this change, Martin introduced a subtle but fatal error that caused the operation of sending large mail messages to the SMTP server under Windows to fail. By putting all values back to be signed, avoiding any signed/unsigned mixing, the bug immediately went away. The type then in use was Lstream_Data_Count, so that it be reverted cleanly if a vote came to that. Now it is Bytecount. Some earlier comments about why the type must be signed: This MUST BE SIGNED, since it also is used in functions that return the number of bytes actually read to or written from in an operation, and these functions can return -1 to signal error. Note that the standard Unix read() and write() functions define the count going in as a size_t, which is UNSIGNED, and the count going out as an ssize_t, which is SIGNED. This is a horrible design flaw. Not only is it highly likely to lead to logic errors when a -1 gets interpreted as a large positive number, but operations are bound to fail in all sorts of horrible ways when a number in the upper-half of the size_t range is passed in -- this number is unrepresentable as an ssize_t, so code that checks to see how many bytes are actually written (which is mandatory if you are dealing with certain types of devices) will get completely screwed up. --ben */ typedef enum lstream_buffering --------------------------------- snip ------------------------------------- 3. in dumper.c, there are four places, all inside of switch() statements, where XD_BYTECOUNT appears twice as a case tag. In each case, the two case blocks contain identical code, and you should *REMOVE THE SECOND* and leave the first.
author ben
date Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:31:11 +0000
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.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Free Software Foundation
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.TH etags 1 "14gen2001" "GNU Tools" "GNU Tools"
.de BP
.sp
.ti -.2i
\(**
..

.SH NAME
etags, ctags \- generate tag file for Emacs, vi
.SH SYNOPSIS
.hy 0
.na
.B etags [\|\-aCDGImRVh\|] [\|\-i \fIfile\fP\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
.if n .br
.B [\|\-o \fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-r \fIregexp\fP\|]
.br
.B [\|\-\-append\|] [\|\-\-no\-defines\|]
.B [\|\-\-no\-globals\|] [\|\-\-include=\fIfile\fP\|]
.B [\|\-\-ignore\-indentation\|] [\|\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP\|]
.B [\|\-\-members\|] [\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|]
.B [\|\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|] [\|\-\-no\-regex\|]
.B [\|\-\-ignore\-case\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|]
.B [\|\-\-help\|] [\|\-\-version\|]
\fIfile\fP .\|.\|.

.B ctags [\|\-aCdgImRVh\|] [\|\-BtTuvwx\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
.if n .br
.B [\|\-o \fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-r \fIregexp\fP\|]
.br
.B [\|\-\-append\|] [\|\-\-backward\-search\|]
.B [\|\-\-cxref\|] [\|\-\-defines\|] [\|\-\-forward\-search\|]
.B [\|\-\-globals\|] [\|\-\-ignore\-indentation\|]
.B [\|\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP\|] [\|\-\-members\|]
.B [\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|]
.B [\|\-\-ignore\-case\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|]
.B [\|\-\-typedefs\|] [\|\-\-typedefs\-and\-c++\|]
.B [\|\-\-update\|] [\|\-\-no\-warn\|]
.B [\|\-\-help\|] [\|\-\-version\|]
\fIfile\fP .\|.\|.
.ad b
.hy 1
.SH DESCRIPTION
The `\|\fBetags\fP\|' program is used to create a tag table file, in a format
understood by
.BR emacs ( 1 )\c
\&; the `\|\fBctags\fP\|' program is used to create a similar table in a
format understood by
.BR vi ( 1 )\c
\&.  Both forms of the program understand the syntax of C, Objective C,
C++, Java, Fortran, Ada, Cobol, Erlang, LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp,
makefiles, Pascal, Perl, Postscript, Python, Prolog, Scheme and most
assembler\-like syntaxes.
Both forms read the files specified on the command line, and write a tag
table (defaults: `\|TAGS\|' for \fBetags\fP, `\|tags\|' for
\fBctags\fP) in the current working directory.
Files specified with relative file names will be recorded in the tag
table with file names relative to the directory where the tag table
resides.  Files specified with absolute file names will be recorded
with absolute file names.
The programs recognize the language used in an input file based on its
file name and contents.  The --language switch can be used to force
parsing of the file names following the switch according to the given
language, overriding guesses based on filename extensions.
.SH OPTIONS
Some options make sense only for the \fBvi\fP style tag files produced
by ctags;
\fBetags\fP does not recognize them.
The programs accept unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-append
Append to existing tag file.  (For vi-format tag files, see also
\fB\-\-update\fP.)
.TP
.B \-B, \-\-backward\-search
Tag files written in the format expected by \fBvi\fP contain regular
expression search instructions; the \fB\-B\fP option writes them using
the delimiter `\|\fB?\fP\|', to search \fIbackwards\fP through files.
The default is to use the delimiter `\|\fB/\fP\|', to search \fIforwards\fP
through files.
Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-\-declarations
In C and derived languages, create tags for function declarations,
and create tags for extern variables unless \-\-no\-globals is used.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-defines
Create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions
and enum constants, too.  This is the
default behavior for \fBetags\fP.
.TP
.B \-D, \-\-no\-defines
Do not create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions
and enum constants.
This may make the tags file much smaller if many header files are tagged.
This is the default behavior for \fBctags\fP.
.TP
.B \-g, \-\-globals
Create tag entries for global variables in C, C++, Objective C, Java,
and Perl.
This is the default behavior for \fBetags\fP.
.TP
.B \-G, \-\-no\-globals
Do not tag global variables.  Typically this reduces the file size by
one fourth.  This is the default behavior for \fBctags\fP.
.TP
\fB\-i\fP \fIfile\fP, \fB\-\-include=\fIfile\fP
Include a note in the tag file indicating that, when searching for a
tag, one should also consult the tags file \fIfile\fP after checking the
current file.  This options is only accepted by \fBetags\fP.
.TP
.B \-I, \-\-ignore\-indentation
Don't rely on indentation as much as we normally do.  Currently, this
means not to assume that a closing brace in the first column is the
final brace of a function or structure definition in C and C++.
.TP
\fB\-l\fP \fIlanguage\fP, \fB\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP
Parse the following files according to the given language.  More than
one such options may be intermixed with filenames.  Use \fB\-\-help\fP
to get a list of the available languages and their default filename
extensions.  The `auto' language can be used to restore automatic
detection of language based on the file name.  The `none'
language may be used to disable language parsing altogether; only
regexp matching is done in this case (see the \fB\-\-regex\fP option).
.TP
.B \-m, \-\-members
Create tag entries for variables that are members of structure-like
constructs in C++, Objective C, Java.
.TP
.B \-M, \-\-no\-members
Do not tag member variables.  This is the default behavior.
.TP
.B \-\-packages\-only
Only tag packages in Ada files.
.TP
\fB\-o\fP \fItagfile\fP, \fB\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP
Explicit name of file for tag table; overrides default `\|TAGS\|' or
`\|tags\|'.   (But ignored with \fB\-v\fP or \fB\-x\fP.)
.TP
\fB\-r\fP \fIregexp\fP, \fB\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP, \fB\-\-ignore\-case\-regex=\fIregexp\fP
Make tags based on regexp matching for each line of the files following
this option, in addition to the tags made with the standard parsing based
on language.  When using \-\-regex, case is significant, while it is not
with \-\-ignore\-case\-regex. May be freely intermixed with filenames and
the \fB\-R\fP option.  The regexps are cumulative, i.e. each option will
add to the previous ones.  The regexps are of the form:
.br
	\fB/\fP\fItagregexp\fP[\fB/\fP\fInameregexp\fP]\fB/\fP
.br

where \fItagregexp\fP is used to match the lines that must be tagged.
It should not match useless characters.  If the match is
such that more characters than needed are unavoidably matched by
\fItagregexp\fP, it may be useful to add a \fInameregexp\fP, to
narrow down the tag scope.  \fBctags\fP ignores regexps without a
\fInameregexp\fP.  The syntax of regexps is the same as in emacs,
augmented with intervals of the form \\{m,n\\}, as in ed or grep.
.br
Here are some examples.  All the regexps are quoted to protect them
from shell interpretation.
.br

Tag the DEFVAR macros in the emacs source files:
.br
\fI\-\-regex\='/[ \\t]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_ \\t(]+"\\([^"]+\\)"\/'\fP
.br

Tag VHDL files (this example is a single long line, broken here for
formatting reasons):
.br
\fI\-\-language\=none\ \-\-regex='/[\ \\t]*\\(ARCHITECTURE\\|\\
CONFIGURATION\\)\ +[^\ ]*\ +OF/'\ \-\-regex\='/[\ \\t]*\\
\\(ATTRIBUTE\\|ENTITY\\|FUNCTION\\|PACKAGE\\(\ BODY\\)?\\
\\|PROCEDURE\\|PROCESS\\|TYPE\\)[\ \\t]+\\([^\ \\t(]+\\)/\\3/'\fP
.br

Tag TCL files (this last example shows the usage of a \fItagregexp\fP):
.br
\fI\-\-lang\=none \-\-regex\='/proc[\ \\t]+\\([^\ \\t]+\\)/\\1/'\fP

.br
A regexp can be preceded by {lang}, thus restriciting it to match lines of
files of the specified language.  Use \fBetags --help\fP to obtain a list
of the recognised languages.  This feature is particularly useful inside
\fBregex files\fP.  A regex file contains one regex per line.  Empty lines,
and those lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.  Lines beginning
with @ are references to regex files whose name follows the @ sign.  Other
lines are considered regular expressions like those following \-\-regex.
.br
For example, the command
.br
etags \-\-regex=@regex.file *.c
.br
reads the regexes contained in the file regex.file.
.TP
.B \-R, \-\-no\-regex
Don't do any more regexp matching on the following files.  May be
freely intermixed with filenames and the \fB\-\-regex\fP option.
.TP
.B \-t, \-\-typedefs
Record typedefs in C code as tags.  Since this is the default behaviour
of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-T, \-\-typedefs\-and\-c++
Generate tag entries for typedefs, struct, enum, and union tags, and
C++ member functions.  Since this is the default behaviour
of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-u, \-\-update
Update tag entries for \fIfiles\fP specified on command line, leaving
tag entries for other files in place.  Currently, this is implemented
by deleting the existing entries for the given files and then
rewriting the new entries at the end of the tags file.  It is often
faster to simply rebuild the entire tag file than to use this.
Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-vgrind
Instead of generating a tag file, write index (in \fBvgrind\fP format)
to standard output.  Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-w, \-\-no\-warn
Suppress warning messages about duplicate entries.  The \fBetags\fP
program does not check for duplicate entries, so this option is not
allowed with it.
.TP
.B \-x, \-\-cxref
Instead of generating a tag file, write a cross reference (in
\fBcxref\fP format) to standard output.  Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-h, \-H, \-\-help
Print usage information.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Print the current version of the program (same as the version of the
emacs \fBetags\fP is shipped with).

.SH "SEE ALSO"
`\|\fBemacs\fP\|' entry in \fBinfo\fP; \fIGNU Emacs Manual\fP, Richard
Stallman.
.br
.BR cxref ( 1 ),
.BR emacs ( 1 ),
.BR vgrind ( 1 ),
.BR vi ( 1 ).

.SH COPYING
Copyright (c) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
the original English.