C Minifier

A C program to remove comments and minimize the code (remove whitespace and summarize code)

Features

• Supporting most C keywords and automatically add space after these, such as: if, else, int, long, float, bool, sizeof
• Supporting macro statements #include and others
• Fast and Without any third-party library
• Without using Regex
• Remove inline C-style comments
• Remove multiline C-style comments
• Trim whitespaces
• Remove empty lines

Build

$ gcc Minifier.c -o minifier

Using

If you are going to minify A C program and get the results in stdout:

./minifier Minifier.c

And maybe sometime you need to write the result in another or same file:

./minifier Minifier.c o.c

TODO

• Adding more C keywords if needed or missed
• Automatically rename and make short identifier names (A hash-map list to keep original name and new random name and a function to generate a short (and unique) name)

Welcome to help and feel free to contribute and send Pull request.

Please open a issue if you find a bug and not have time to fix. Thanks in advance.

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