Alphabetize C functions in .c file?

[Baker]

Anything out there that can do this that is known to anyone?

I have a zillion functions and I'd like to get them in alphabetical order.

Header = easy. C source file ... Google is failing me.

[andrewj]

In VIM (a text editor) I would make all the functions sit on a single line, pass it to :!sort, and re-run its automatic code formatter to put it all back to normal.

That probably doesn't help you much

P.S. the vim command to put a function on a single line is just :.,/^}/join
(run from the top of the function and assuming the last } appears at the start of the line)

P.P.S. the vim built-in code formatter didn't work, would need to pass each function to :!indent

[revelator]

hmm im not sure maybe astyle can do it or maybe ctags... going to try since i have both so hang on.

[revelator]

[Baker]

I would have thought that something like this would have long existed, but I guess not so I am writing my own and am rather close to done. Does involve some work and I having to write some block detection based on brace indentation count, but I should learn how to handle these things so ...

@ Reckless, that just sorts lines from the looks of the source. I want it to sort C functions in a c file.

[revelator]

code not by me was posted on some forum and works for sorting c function names alphabetically but it does have a few quirks he noted (crashes on empty functions).
besides that yeah probably better to write your own

[Baker]

[revelator]

looks like a good start and it will probably be welcome by others i noticed a ton of threads from others searching for the same when i tried to lookup something that could do this.