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Subject: Re: kernel headers dependency graph ? (systm.h tangle)
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a tool to produce a dependency graph for C headers ?
>
> If that matters (i.e. someone has already studied it),
> i am interested in the header situation in the FreeBSD kernel.
>
> It may be a well known thing, but i just realized
> that <sys/systm.h> is entagled with <sys/libkern.h> and both bring
> in a lot of other headers, and you cannot bring in simply
> the string.h functions, or printf, because there is no
> leaf header for them.
> I don't know if this is the only case, or there are other
> 'classes' which are intermixed with lots of other stuff.
>
> I suppose the problem has been already discussed and it is just
> the result of historical reasons, but is there any reason other
> than ENOTIME why (to cite things that are trivial to fix while
> preserving compatibility):
>
> - we don't have sys/string.h with all the memcpy/bcopy and friends
>  that are currently spread between systm.h and libkern.h
>
> - printf/scanf and strto*() are not in their own header;
>
> and so on ?
>
>        cheers
>        luigi

Not sure if it's been done before, but it sounds like a good job for Perl or (I can't believe I'm suggesting this) Ruby.

-Garrett