Package: c2man (2.41-17) [universe]

Graham Stoney's mechanized man page generator.

Please do not use c2man -- it is unmaintained upstream now, and only exists because other packages depend on it. Doxygen does a far better job.

C2man is an automatic documentation tool that extracts comments from C source code to generate functional interface documentation in the same format as sections 2 & 3 of the Unix Programmer's Manual. It requires minimal effort from the programmer by looking for comments in the usual places near the objects they document, rather than imposing a rigid function-comment syntax or requiring that the programmer learn and use a typesetting language. Acceptable documentation can often be generated from existing code with no modifications.

conformance: supports both K&R and ISO/ANSI C coding styles -- but it has problems with variable names of type __somename.

Features:

 * generates output in nroff -man, TeXinfo, LaTeX or
   HTML format
 * handles comments as part of the language grammar
 * automagically documents enum parameter & return
   values
 * handles C (/* */) and C++ (//) style comments

 * doesn't handle C++ grammar (yet)
 * doxygen does this job better