3 # Unconditionally regenerate:
8 # from information stored in
11 # plus all the .c and .h files listed in MANIFEST
13 # Has an optional arg, which is the directory to chdir to before reading
14 # MANIFEST and *.[ch].
16 # This script is normally invoked as part of 'make all', but is also
17 # called from from regen.pl.
19 # '=head1' are the only headings looked for. If the next line after the
20 # heading begins with a word character, it is considered to be the first line
21 # of documentation that applies to the heading itself. That is, it is output
22 # immediately after the heading, before the first function, and not indented.
23 # The next input line that is a pod directive terminates this heading-level
29 # See database of global and static function prototypes in embed.fnc
30 # This is used to generate prototype headers under various configurations,
31 # export symbols lists for different platforms, and macros to provide an
32 # implicit interpreter context argument.
45 my $curheader = "Unknown section";
47 sub autodoc ($$) { # parse a file and extract documentation info
49 my($in, $doc, $line, $header_doc);
51 while (defined($in = <$fh>)) {
52 if ($in =~ /^#\s*define\s+([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]+)\(/ &&
53 ($file ne 'embed.h' || $file ne 'proto.h')) {
57 if ($in=~ /^=head1 (.*)/) {
60 # If the next line begins with a word char, then is the start of
61 # heading-level documentation.
62 if (defined($doc = <$fh>)) {
70 # Continue getting the heading-level documentation until read
71 # in any pod directive (or as a fail-safe, find a closing
72 # comment to this pod in a C language file
74 while (defined($doc = <$fh>)) {
81 if ($doc =~ m:^\s*\*/$:) {
82 warn "=cut missing? $file:$line:$doc";;
91 if ($in =~ /^=for\s+apidoc\s+(.*?)\s*\n/) {
93 $proto = "||$proto" unless $proto =~ /\|/;
94 my($flags, $ret, $name, @args) = split /\|/, $proto;
97 while (defined($doc = <$fh>)) {
99 last DOC if $doc =~ /^=\w+/;
100 if ($doc =~ m:^\*/$:) {
101 warn "=cut missing? $file:$line:$doc";;
106 $docs = "\n$docs" if $docs and $docs !~ /^\n/;
108 # Check the consistency of the flags
109 my ($embed_where, $inline_where);
110 my ($embed_may_change, $inline_may_change);
112 my $docref = delete $funcflags{$name};
113 if ($docref and %$docref) {
114 $embed_where = $docref->{flags} =~ /A/ ? 'api' : 'guts';
115 $embed_may_change = $docref->{flags} =~ /M/;
117 $missing{$name} = $file;
120 $inline_where = $flags =~ /A/ ? 'api' : 'guts';
121 $inline_may_change = $flags =~ /x/;
123 if (defined $embed_where && $inline_where ne $embed_where) {
124 warn "Function '$name' inconsistency: embed.fnc says $embed_where, Pod says $inline_where";
127 if (defined $embed_may_change
128 && $inline_may_change ne $embed_may_change) {
129 my $message = "Function '$name' inconsistency: ";
130 if ($embed_may_change) {
131 $message .= "embed.fnc says 'may change', Pod does not";
133 $message .= "Pod says 'may change', embed.fnc does not";
137 } elsif (!defined $embed_where) {
138 warn "Unable to place $name!\n";
141 $inline_where = $embed_where;
142 $flags .= 'x' if $embed_may_change;
143 @args = @{$docref->{args}};
144 $ret = $docref->{retval};
147 $docs{$inline_where}{$curheader}{$name}
148 = [$flags, $docs, $ret, $file, @args];
150 # Create a special entry with an empty-string name for the
151 # heading-level documentation.
152 if (defined $header_doc) {
153 $docs{$inline_where}{$curheader}{""} = $header_doc;
158 if ($doc =~ /^=(?:for|head)/) {
163 warn "$file:$line:$in";
169 sub docout ($$$) { # output the docs for one function
170 my($fh, $name, $docref) = @_;
171 my($flags, $docs, $ret, $file, @args) = @$docref;
174 $docs .= "NOTE: this function is experimental and may change or be
175 removed without notice.\n\n" if $flags =~ /x/;
176 $docs .= "NOTE: the perl_ form of this function is deprecated.\n\n"
178 $docs .= "NOTE: this function must be explicitly called as Perl_$name with an aTHX_ parameter.\n\n"
181 print $fh "=item $name\nX<$name>\n$docs";
183 if ($flags =~ /U/) { # no usage
185 } elsif ($flags =~ /s/) { # semicolon ("dTHR;")
186 print $fh "\t\t$name;\n\n";
187 } elsif ($flags =~ /n/) { # no args
188 print $fh "\t$ret\t$name\n\n";
189 } else { # full usage
190 my $p = $flags =~ /o/; # no #define foo Perl_foo
191 my $n = "Perl_"x$p . $name;
192 my $large_ret = length $ret > 7;
193 my $indent_size = 7+8 # nroff: 7 under =head + 8 under =item
194 +8+($large_ret ? 1 + length $ret : 8)
197 print $fh "\t$ret" . ($large_ret ? ' ' : "\t") . "$n(";
200 if ($indent_size + 2 + length > 79) {
202 $indent_size -= length($n) - 3;
208 $args = @args ? "pTHX_ " : "pTHX";
209 if ($long_args) { print $fh $args; $args = '' }
211 $long_args and print $fh "\n";
212 my $first = !$long_args;
216 && $indent_size + 3 + length($args[0]) + length $args > 79
221 "\t".($large_ret ? " " x (1+length $ret) : "\t")
222 ." "x($long_args ? 4 : 1 + length $n)
224 $args, (","x($args ne 'pTHX_ ') . "\n")x!!@args;
228 $args .= ", "x!!(length $args && $args ne 'pTHX_ ')
231 if ($long_args) { print $fh "\n", substr $indent, 0, -4 }
234 print $fh "=for hackers\nFound in file $file\n\n";
238 my ($podname, $header, $dochash, $missing, $footer) = @_;
239 my $filename = "pod/$podname.pod";
240 open my $fh, '>', $filename or die "Can't open $filename: $!";
242 print $fh <<"_EOH_", $header;
243 -*- buffer-read-only: t -*-
245 !!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
246 This file is built by $0 extracting documentation from the C source
252 # case insensitive sort, with fallback for determinacy
253 for $key (sort { uc($a) cmp uc($b) || $a cmp $b } keys %$dochash) {
254 my $section = $dochash->{$key};
255 print $fh "\n=head1 $key\n\n";
257 # Output any heading-level documentation and delete so won't get in
259 if (exists $section->{""}) {
260 print $fh $section->{""} . "\n";
261 delete $section->{""};
263 print $fh "=over 8\n\n";
265 # Again, fallback for determinacy
266 for my $key (sort { uc($a) cmp uc($b) || $a cmp $b } keys %$section) {
267 docout($fh, $key, $section->{$key});
269 print $fh "\n=back\n";
273 print $fh "\n=head1 Undocumented functions\n\n";
274 print $fh $podname eq 'perlapi' ? <<'_EOB_' : <<'_EOB_';
275 The following functions have been flagged as part of the public API,
276 but are currently undocumented. Use them at your own risk, as the
277 interfaces are subject to change. Functions that are not listed in this
278 document are not intended for public use, and should NOT be used under any
281 If you use one of the undocumented functions below, you may wish to consider
282 creating and submitting documentation for it. If your patch is accepted, this
283 will indicate that the interface is stable (unless it is explicitly marked
289 The following functions are currently undocumented. If you use one of
290 them, you may wish to consider creating and submitting documentation for
296 for my $missing (sort @$missing) {
297 print $fh "=item $missing\nX<$missing>\n\n";
299 print $fh "=back\n\n";
302 print $fh $footer, <<'_EOF_';
308 close $fh or die "Can't close $filename: $!";
314 or die "Couldn't chdir to '$workdir': $!";
317 open IN, "embed.fnc" or die $!;
329 my ($flags, $retval, $func, @args) = split /\s*\|\s*/, $_;
333 s/\b(NN|NULLOK)\b\s+//g for @args;
334 $func =~ s/\t//g; # clean up fields from embed.pl
337 $funcflags{$func} = {
345 # glob() picks up docs from extra .c or .h files that may be in unclean
349 open FH, "MANIFEST" or die "Can't open MANIFEST: $!";
353 for $file (($MANIFEST =~ /^(\S+\.c)\t/gm), ($MANIFEST =~ /^(\S+\.h)\t/gm)) {
354 open F, "< $file" or die "Cannot open $file for docs: $!\n";
355 $curheader = "Functions in file $file\n";
357 close F or die "Error closing $file: $!\n";
360 for (sort keys %funcflags) {
361 next unless $funcflags{$_}{flags} =~ /d/;
362 warn "no docs for $_\n"
365 foreach (sort keys %missing) {
367 # Heuristics for known not-a-function macros:
371 warn "Function '$_', documented in $missing{$_}, not listed in embed.fnc";
374 # walk table providing an array of components in each line to
375 # subroutine, printing the result
377 # List of funcs in the public API that aren't also marked as experimental.
378 my @missing_api = grep $funcflags{$_}{flags} =~ /A/ && $funcflags{$_}{flags} !~ /M/ && !$docs{api}{$_}, keys %funcflags;
379 output('perlapi', <<'_EOB_', $docs{api}, \@missing_api, <<'_EOE_');
382 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
385 X<Perl API> X<API> X<api>
387 This file contains the documentation of the perl public API generated by
388 F<embed.pl>, specifically a listing of functions, macros, flags, and variables
389 that may be used by extension writers. L<At the end|/Undocumented functions>
390 is a list of functions which have yet to be documented. The interfaces of
391 those are subject to change without notice. Any functions not listed here are
392 not part of the public API, and should not be used by extension writers at
393 all. For these reasons, blindly using functions listed in proto.h is to be
394 avoided when writing extensions.
396 Note that all Perl API global variables must be referenced with the C<PL_>
397 prefix. Some macros are provided for compatibility with the older,
398 unadorned names, but this support may be disabled in a future release.
400 Perl was originally written to handle US-ASCII only (that is characters
401 whose ordinal numbers are in the range 0 - 127).
402 And documentation and comments may still use the term ASCII, when
403 sometimes in fact the entire range from 0 - 255 is meant.
405 Note that Perl can be compiled and run under EBCDIC (See L<perlebcdic>)
406 or ASCII. Most of the documentation (and even comments in the code)
407 ignore the EBCDIC possibility.
408 For almost all purposes the differences are transparent.
409 As an example, under EBCDIC,
410 instead of UTF-8, UTF-EBCDIC is used to encode Unicode strings, and so
411 whenever this documentation refers to C<utf8>
412 (and variants of that name, including in function names),
413 it also (essentially transparently) means C<UTF-EBCDIC>.
414 But the ordinals of characters differ between ASCII, EBCDIC, and
415 the UTF- encodings, and a string encoded in UTF-EBCDIC may occupy more bytes
418 The listing below is alphabetical, case insensitive.
424 Until May 1997, this document was maintained by Jeff Okamoto
425 <okamoto@corp.hp.com>. It is now maintained as part of Perl itself.
427 With lots of help and suggestions from Dean Roehrich, Malcolm Beattie,
428 Andreas Koenig, Paul Hudson, Ilya Zakharevich, Paul Marquess, Neil
429 Bowers, Matthew Green, Tim Bunce, Spider Boardman, Ulrich Pfeifer,
430 Stephen McCamant, and Gurusamy Sarathy.
432 API Listing originally by Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>.
434 Updated to be autogenerated from comments in the source by Benjamin Stuhl.
438 L<perlguts>, L<perlxs>, L<perlxstut>, L<perlintern>
442 # List of non-static internal functions
444 grep $funcflags{$_}{flags} !~ /[As]/ && !$docs{guts}{$_}, keys %funcflags;
446 output('perlintern', <<'END', $docs{guts}, \@missing_guts, <<'END');
449 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
453 X<internal Perl functions> X<interpreter functions>
455 This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the
456 Perl interpreter that are documented using Perl's internal documentation
457 format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words,
458 B<they are not for use in extensions>!
464 The autodocumentation system was originally added to the Perl core by
465 Benjamin Stuhl. Documentation is by whoever was kind enough to
466 document their functions.
470 L<perlguts>, L<perlapi>