seemingly off topic but not really

[Diomidis Spinellis]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Does anyone know of a program that knows C syntax, and can rename a  
> variable across a set of files without screwing up the comments etc.?
>
> I vaguely remember seeing such a program once...
>

CScout will do what you want <http://www.spinellis.gr/cscout>.  It  
can follow cpp macros so it will even rename structure members that  
are only related by being used by the same macro.  It can also  
process together multiple configurations or modules.  I've recently  
run it over the FreeBSD kernel, and it can handle all the C  
extensions we're using.  Write to me if you need any help.

Diomidis Spinellis