autodoc: Add an Index section

perlapi and perlintern are divided into sections that partition the API
elements into rough major categories of related functions.  This commit
causes an Index to be generated, a mapping from function name to the
section it's documented in.

Author: khwilliamson

autodoc.pl

@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@
 # unlooked at
 my %protos;
 
+# For outputting an index of the API elements.  Each key is an element; its
+# value is the section the element is in.
+my %index;
+
 my $described_in = "Described in";
 
 my $description_indent = 4;
@@ -231,6 +235,7 @@
 
 # Kept separate at end
 my $undocumented_scn = 'Undocumented elements';
+my $index_scn = 'INDEX';
 
 my %valid_sections = (
     $AV_scn => {},
@@ -479,10 +484,11 @@ ($file, $line_num = 0)
     return "at $file, line $line_num";
 }
 
-sub check_and_add_proto_defn {
-    my ($element, $file, $line_num, $raw_flags, $ret_type, $args_ref,
-        $definition_type
-       ) = @_;
+sub check_and_add_proto_defn($element, $file, $line_num, $destpod, $section,
+                             $raw_flags, $ret_type, $args_ref,
+                             $definition_type)
+{
+
 
     # This function constructs a hash describing what we know so far about the
     # API element '$element', as determined by 'apidoc'-type lines scattered
@@ -620,6 +626,16 @@ sub check_and_add_proto_defn {
         else {
             $elements{$element}{docs_found}{file} = $file;
             $elements{$element}{docs_found}{line_num} = $line_num // 0;
+            $elements{$element}{docs_found}{section} = $section;
+
+            if (! $destpod) {
+                my $this_flags = $elements{$element}{flags}
+                              || $flags_sans_d;
+                $destpod = destination_pod($this_flags);
+            }
+
+            $elements{$element}{destpod} = $destpod;
+            $index{$destpod}{$element} = $section;
         }
 
         if ($definition_type == PLAIN_APIDOC) {
@@ -758,7 +774,7 @@ ($file, $line_num, $input, $is_file_C)
         EOS
 }
 
-sub handle_apidoc_line ($file, $line_num, $type, $arg) {
+sub handle_apidoc_line ($file, $line_num, $destpod, $section, $type, $arg) {
 
     # This just does a couple of checks that would otherwise have to be
     # duplicated in the calling code, and calls check_and_add_proto_defn() to
@@ -792,10 +808,12 @@ ($file, $line_num, $type, $arg)
     # this definition (which has the side effect of cleaning up any NN or
     # NULLOK in @args)
     my $updated = check_and_add_proto_defn($name, $file, $line_num,
+                    $destpod, $section,
 
                     # The fact that we have this line somewhere in the source
                     # code means we implicitly have the 'd' flag
                     $flags . "d",
+
                     $ret_type, \@args,
                     $type);
 
@@ -899,7 +917,8 @@ ($fh, $file)
               . " '$arg' " . where_from_string($file, $line_num);
         }
         elsif ($outer_line_type == APIDOC_DEFN) {
-            handle_apidoc_line($file, $line_num, $outer_line_type, $arg);
+            handle_apidoc_line($file, $line_num, $destpod, $section,
+                               $outer_line_type, $arg);
             next;   # 'handle_apidoc_line' handled everything for this type
         }
         elsif ($outer_line_type == APIDOC_SECTION) {
@@ -920,9 +939,10 @@ ($fh, $file)
             # Drop down to accumulate the heading text for this section.
         }
         elsif ($outer_line_type == PLAIN_APIDOC) {
-            my $leader_ref =
-                  handle_apidoc_line($file, $line_num, $outer_line_type, $arg);
-            $destpod = destination_pod($$leader_ref->{flags});
+            my $leader_ref = handle_apidoc_line($file, $line_num,
+                                                undef, $section,
+                                                $outer_line_type, $arg);
+            $destpod = $$leader_ref->{destpod};
 
             push @items, $leader_ref;
 
@@ -944,8 +964,9 @@ ($fh, $file)
                 # separating 'apidoc_item' lines
                 $text = "";
 
-                my $item_ref =
-                  handle_apidoc_line($file, $line_num, $item_line_type, $arg);
+                my $item_ref = handle_apidoc_line($file, $line_num,
+                                                  $destpod, $section,
+                                                  $item_line_type, $arg);
 
                 push @items, $item_ref;
             }
@@ -1563,6 +1584,7 @@ sub parse_config_h {
             $flags .= 'U' unless defined $configs{$name}{usage};
             my $data = check_and_add_proto_defn($name, $config_h,
                                      $configs{$name}{defn_line_num},
+                                     $api, $section,
                                      $flags,
                                      "void",    # No return type
                                      [],
@@ -2336,6 +2358,24 @@ ($destpod)
         print $fh construct_missings_section($hdr, $ref);
     }
 
+    print $fh <<~EOT;
+
+        =head1 $index_scn
+
+        Below is an alphabetical list of all API elements in this file,
+        cross referenced to the section in which they are documented.
+
+        EOT
+
+    my %this_index = $index{$podname}->%*;
+    my $space = "E<nbsp>" x 4;
+
+    print $fh "=over 1\n\n";
+    foreach my $element (sort dictionary_order keys %this_index) {
+        print $fh "=item L</$element>${space}L</$this_index{$element}>\n\n";
+    }
+    print $fh "=back\n\n";
+
     print $fh "\n$destpod->{footer}\n=cut\n";
 
     read_only_bottom_close_and_rename($fh);
@@ -2350,7 +2390,10 @@ ($destpod)
                                  @{$embed}{qw(flags return_type name args)};
     check_and_add_proto_defn($func, $file,
                              # embed.fnc data doesn't currently furnish the
-                             # line number
+                             # line number; and we have no section in the
+                             # documente yet
+                             undef,
+                             undef,
                              undef,
 
                              $flags, $ret_type, $args,
@@ -2593,7 +2636,8 @@ ($destpod)
 
 my $section_list = join "\n\n", map { "=item L</$_>" }
                                 sort(dictionary_order keys %valid_sections),
-                                $undocumented_scn;  # Keep last
+                                $undocumented_scn,  # Keep next-to-last
+                                $index_scn;         # Keep last
 
 # Leading '|' is to hide these lines from pod checkers.  khw is unsure if this
 # is still needed.
@@ -2613,9 +2657,9 @@ ($destpod)
 |L<perlintern> and F<$config_h>, some items are listed here as being actually
 |documented in another pod.
 |
-|L<At the end|/$undocumented_scn> is a list of functions which have yet
-|to be documented.  Patches welcome!  The interfaces of these are subject to
-|change without notice.
+|L<Just before the index|/$undocumented_scn> is a list of functions which have
+|yet to be documented.  Patches welcome!  The interfaces of these are subject
+|to change without notice.
 |
 |Some of the functions documented here are consolidated so that a single entry
 |serves for multiple functions which all do basically the same thing, but have