To: Perl-Users@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Subject: Re: pstruct -- a C structure formatter; AKA c2ph, a C to perl header translator
Date: 28 Jul 91 23:07:45 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)

It occurs to me that I'd much rather have the utmp 
format defintion come out this way:

    A8 A8 A16 i

than this way:

    c32 i

Becayse I want to talk about $foo[&ut'ut_name] as one string,
which happens to be 8 chars lone.

And likewise, the sys/acct.h struct acct defintion on my
machine works better this way:

    A10 x2 i7 S2 i q i2 c A5 x2 f

than this way:

    c10 x2 i7 S2 i q i2 c6 x2 f

(PS: the 'q' format is a long long, or integer*8, format.)


Because the ac_comm should be one thing, and because ac_flag 
and ac_unused (the 'c A5') part, should be two things, not 6.

I've also taught it to grok the continuation lines gcc puts in 
the stabs, and I broke down and added the internal fieldnames
(like ut_line) hidden away in the package.

I'm going to put this out on 

    convex.com:/pub/perl/programs/c2ph  [130.168.1.1]

for anonymous FTP, rather than posting context diffs here.  
If you can't FTP, drop me a note.

--tom