cppi - Man Page
indent the C preprocessor directives in FILE to reflect their nesting
Synopsis
cppi [FILE]
cppi -c [OPTION] [FILE]...
Description
Indent the C preprocessor directives in FILE to reflect their nesting and ensure that there is exactly one space character between each #if, #elif, #define directive and the following token, and write the result to standard output. The number of spaces between the `#' and the following directive must correspond to the level of nesting of that directive. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
- -a, --ansi
when checking, fail if text follows #else or #endif
- -c, --check
set exit code, but don't produce any output
- -l, --list-files-only
don't generate diagnostics about indentation; print to stdout only the names of files that are not properly indented
- -m, --max-string-length=LENGTH
fail if there is a double-quoted string longer than LENGTH; if LENGTH is 0 (the default), then there is no limit
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
With the -c option, don't write to stdout. Instead, check the indentation of the specified files giving diagnostics for preprocessor lines that aren't properly indented or are otherwise invalid.
Note that --ansi without --check does not correct the problem of non-ANSI text following #else and #endif directives.
The exit code will be one of these
- 0
all directives properly indented
- 1
some cpp directive(s) improperly indented, or text follows #else/#endif (enabled with --check --ansi), or a double-quoted string is longer than the specified maximum
- 2
#if/#endif mismatch, EOF in comment or string
- 3
file (e.g. open/read/write) error
A pragma directive may have its `#' indented.
Author
Written by Jim Meyering.
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <bug-cppi@gnu.org>.
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <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.
See Also
The full documentation for cppi is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cppi programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info cppi
should give you access to the complete manual.