gcc able to output identifiers?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Rainer Hochschild <RainerHochschild@web.de> writes:

> Is there a way that will make gcc provide me with a list of all
> (C/C++) identifiers used in the source code (i.e. all variables,
> constants, functions, methods, classes, macros etc.). My intention is
> to check this output against some regular expressions to identify
> violations against naming conventions.

The compiler has no option to produce a complete list.  There are
various approaches you can take to get this information, though I'm not
sure that any of them are guaranteed 100% complete.  For example, you
could look at the debugging information.

> Or is there some other way to check the source code for compliance to
> user-specified naming conventions using a tool from the gcc suite?

In current development gcc, not yet released, you might be able to write
a plugin for this.  http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins .

Ian