Can GCC be used for extracting comments (like Doxygen)?

Can GCC be used for extracting comments (like Doxygen)?

[Rajasekaran, Deepak (IE10)]

I have many C files with Javadoc-style comments. Each statement contains a
comment before it. I need to generate documentation from this. I am looking
for a tool which takes the C files and generates a file from which the
documentation and the corresponding source code can be easily extracted
(i.e., more easily than by parsing the source code).

I tried Ccdoc but it processes only header files. I tried Doxygen but it
loses the correspondence between the comments and source code. Is it
possible to use GCC for this purpose?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)

Re: Can GCC be used for extracting comments (like Doxygen)?

[EMPEROR]

hi
u may find this useful.
Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, 
IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D.

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/



On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Rajasekaran, Deepak (IE10) wrote:

> I have many C files with Javadoc-style comments. Each statement contains a
> comment before it. I need to generate documentation from this. I am looking
> for a tool which takes the C files and generates a file from which the
> documentation and the corresponding source code can be easily extracted
> (i.e., more easily than by parsing the source code).
>
> I tried Ccdoc but it processes only header files. I tried Doxygen but it
> loses the correspondence between the comments and source code. Is it
> possible to use GCC for this purpose?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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