in programming, what is a program or software feature that automatically makes an API reference out of your include files called?

2015-03-27T11:02:22Z

and I what program/software has this feature I can use?

_Object2015-03-27T12:42:31Z

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They're called documentation generators. More generally, they are a type of code generator or a compiler.
Doxygen comes to mind.
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/