HP C Programmer's Guide (92434-90009)

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Using C Programming Tools

Description of C Programming Tools

Below is a brief description of each of the C tools.

• cb is a C program beautiﬁer.

• cflow is a C ﬂow graph generator.

• cpp is the C language preprocessor.

• ctags is a C programming tool that creates a tag ﬁle for ex(1) or vi(1) from the speciﬁed

C, Pascal, and FORTRAN sources.

• cxref is a C program cross-reference generator.

• lex is a program generator for lexical analysis of text.

• lint is a C program checker.

• yacc is a programming tool for describing the input to a computer program.