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Provide a man page for parse-headers.pl, describing
how to use it.

The documentation on ReST format was generated via pod2rst:
	http://search.cpan.org/~dowens/Pod-POM-View-Restructured-0.02/bin/pod2rst

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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parse_headers.pl
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****
NAME
****


parse_headers.pl - parse a C file, in order to identify functions, structs,
enums and defines and create cross-references to a Sphinx book.


********
SYNOPSIS
********


\ **parse_headers.pl**\ [<options>] <C_FILE> <OUT_FILE> [<EXCEPTIONS_FILE>]

Where <options> can be: --debug, --help or --man.


*******
OPTIONS
*******



\ **--debug**\

Put the script in verbose mode, useful for debugging.



\ **--help**\

Prints a brief help message and exits.



\ **--man**\

Prints the manual page and exits.




***********
DESCRIPTION
***********


Convert a C header or source file (C_FILE), into a ReStructured Text
included via ..parsed-literal block with cross-references for the
documentation files that describe the API. It accepts an optional
EXCEPTIONS_FILE with describes what elements will be either ignored or
be pointed to a non-default reference.

The output is written at the (OUT_FILE).

It is capable of identifying defines, functions, structs, typedefs,
enums and enum symbols and create cross-references for all of them.
It is also capable of distinguish #define used for specifying a Linux
ioctl.

The EXCEPTIONS_FILE contain two types of statements: \ **ignore**\ or \ **replace**\ .

The syntax for the ignore tag is:


ignore \ **type**\ \ **name**\

The \ **ignore**\ means that it won't generate cross references for a
\ **name**\ symbol of type \ **type**\ .

The syntax for the replace tag is:


replace \ **type**\ \ **name**\ \ **new_value**\

The \ **replace**\ means that it will generate cross references for a
\ **name**\ symbol of type \ **type**\ , but, instead of using the default
replacement rule, it will use \ **new_value**\ .

For both statements, \ **type**\ can be either one of the following:


\ **ioctl**\

The ignore or replace statement will apply to ioctl definitions like:

#define VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER _IOW('V', 79, struct v4l2_dbg_register)



\ **define**\

The ignore or replace statement will apply to any other #define found
at C_FILE.



\ **typedef**\

The ignore or replace statement will apply to typedef statements at C_FILE.



\ **struct**\

The ignore or replace statement will apply to the name of struct statements
at C_FILE.



\ **enum**\

The ignore or replace statement will apply to the name of enum statements
at C_FILE.



\ **symbol**\

The ignore or replace statement will apply to the name of enum statements
at C_FILE.

For replace statements, \ **new_value**\ will automatically use :c:type:
references for \ **typedef**\ , \ **enum**\ and \ **struct**\ types. It will use :ref:
for \ **ioctl**\ , \ **define**\ and \ **symbol**\ types. The type of reference can
also be explicitly defined at the replace statement.




********
EXAMPLES
********


ignore define _VIDEODEV2_H


Ignore a #define _VIDEODEV2_H at the C_FILE.

ignore symbol PRIVATE


On a struct like:

enum foo { BAR1, BAR2, PRIVATE };

It won't generate cross-references for \ **PRIVATE**\ .

replace symbol BAR1 :c:type:\`foo\`
replace symbol BAR2 :c:type:\`foo\`


On a struct like:

enum foo { BAR1, BAR2, PRIVATE };

It will make the BAR1 and BAR2 enum symbols to cross reference the foo
symbol at the C domain.


****
BUGS
****


Report bugs to Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>


*********
COPYRIGHT
*********


Copyright (c) 2016 by Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>.

License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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