1. Introduction

Coding standards for C/C++ or any language is required in order to make the programs more readable/understandable by programmers. There are C/C++ beautifiers (formating tools) to accomplish this goal. Formatted (beautified) code improves the productivity of programmers by 2 times!!

On Linux/Unixes there is a command called "indent" and "cb" . Refer to 'man indent' and 'man cb'. Note that indent and cb work for only "C" programs. For "C++" programs use "bcpp".

Important NOTE: To compile bcpp under unix, unpack bcpp.tar.gz and you MUST change directory to "code" and give a make. Do not change to "unix" directory and give a make. That will give lots of errors.

Download the beautifier program from one of the following

• If you are having trouble downloading software from any of the sites below, then download from my site at http://www.aldev.8m.com/cppbeautifier

• C++ : BCPP site is at http://dickey.his.com/bcpp/bcpp.html or at http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey. BCPP ftp site is at ftp://dickey.his.com/bcpp/bcpp.tar.gz
• C++ : http://www.consultix-inc.com/c++b.html
• C : http://www.chips.navy.mil/oasys/c/ and mirror at Oasys
• C++ : http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html
• C++, C, Java and Oracle Pro-C Beautifier http://www.geocities.com/~starkville/main.html
• C++, C beautifier http://users.erols.com/astronaut/vim/ccb-1.07.tar.gz and site at http://users.erols.com/astronaut/vim/#vimlinks_src
• C++, C, Java, Perl beautifier CBP http://www.prismtk.de/docs/cbp
• GC! GreatCode! is a powerful C/C++ source code beautifier Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://perso.club-internet.fr/cbeaudet
• CbVan for C, C++ and Java at http://www.geocities.com/~starkville/main.html

BCPP was written by Steven De Toni at steve@alpha.ocbbs.gen.nz