---
name: "protoize-2.95"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "protoize-2.95"
version: "1:2.95.4-11woody1"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/protoize-2.95"
---

# protoize-2.95(1)

create/remove ANSI prototypes from C code

## NAME

protoize, unprotoize - create/remove ANSI prototypes from C code

## SYNOPSIS

**protoize** *\[options\] files ....*\
 **unprotoize** *\[options\] files ....*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **protoize**, and **unprotoize** commands. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

**protoize** is an optional part of GNU C.  You can use it to add prototypes to a program, thus converting the program to ANSI C in one respect.  The companion program \`unprotoize' does the reverse: it removes argument types from any prototypes that are found.

When you run these programs, you must specify a set of source files as command line arguments.

## OPTIONS

These programs are non-trivial to operate, and it is neither possible nor desirable to properly summarize options in this man page.  Read the info documentation for more information.

## SEE ALSO

The programs are documented fully by *Gcc: The use and the internals of the GNU compiler*, available via the Info system.  The documentation for protoize/unprotoize can be found in the subsection "Invoking GCC", under "Running Protoize."

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Galen Hazelwood, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.