Re: What Refactorings Would you Like for C

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:58:49 +1300, Ian Collins wrote:

pingu219 wrote:
Hi I'm currently a student working on an honours-level project to
create a visual tool which will be able to represent C project files
and code as well as allow the user to perform high and certain low-
level refactorings.

At the moment I'm compiling a list of refactorings which are applicable
to C that people who program alot with structured programming languages
find useful.

So far I've got (some I got from someone else's post on another google
group):

- Rename variable/function
- Move variable/function
- Reduce scope of variable
- Publish function (make it public, put a declaration in the .h file) -
Perish function (make it static, remove it from the .h file) -
Add/Remove parameter from function
- Reorder function arguments
- Remove unnecessary includes

Extract function (pull a block of code out into a function) would be
number one on my list.

I sometimes put all the global variables of a .c file (and the .h file,
of course) into a
(useless) struct. Just to force me to track all the places where it is
referenced. But again: that is not refactoring.

AvK
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