C2man

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  c2man
       
           An automatic {documentation} extraction tool by Graham
          Stoney .  c2man extracts comments
          from {C} source code to generate functional interface
          documentation in the same format as sections 2 and 3 of the


          {Unix} Programmer's Manual.  It looks for comments near the
          objects they document, rather than imposing a rigid {syntax}
          or requiring the programmer to use a typesetting language.
          Acceptable documentation can often be generated from existing
          code with no modifications.
       
          c2man supports both {K&R} and {ISO}/{ANSI C} coding styles.
          Output can be in {nroff} -man, {Texinfo} or {LaTeX} format.
          It {automagically} documents {enum} parameter and return
          values, it handles both {C} (/* */) and {C++} (//) style
          comments, but not C++ grammar (yet).  It requires {yacc},
          {byacc} or {bison} for syntax analysis; {lex} or {flex} for
          {lexical analysis} and {nroff}, {groff}, {texinfo} or {LaTeX}
          to format the output.  It runs under {Unix}, {OS/2} and
          {MS-DOS}.
       
          Version 2.0 patchlevel 25 (1995-10-25).
       
          {Washington FTP
          (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/usenet/comp.sources.reviewed/volume03/)}.
          {Stuttgart FTP
         
       (ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/archive/comp.sources/reviewed/)}.
          {Patches
          (ftp://lth.se/pub/netnews/sources.bugs/volume93/sep/)}.
       
          Patches posted to {Usenet} newsgroups {news:comp.sources.bugs}
          and {news:comp.sources.reviewed}.
       
          (2003-05-02)