[TxMt] Re: Reading Code?

[Mathieu Godart]

Dear Steve,

> If someone wanted to write a free code analyzer which produced a
> flowchart as a Visio or OmniGraffle diagram, I'd happily use it!

Hehe! I would even be very happy to be a beta tester.

But, I think it could be doable with a little help from cscope, one or  
two drops of Graphviz and a lot of processing time. ;-)

Best regards,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Godart

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ASIC Integration Manager
Coolsand Technologies
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Le 27 mars 09 à 18:18, Steve King a écrit :

> Mathieu Godart wrote:
>> I haven't found a better tool that /cscope/ for C code. Once I tried
>> to dive into the mysterious world of code explorer software, but I
>> quickly gave up. Nothing is as good as a text editor and a tag  
>> program
>> (maybe Doxygen can help a bit, especially for oo source code).
>
> Many moons ago I found a C editor which parsed the code and  
> generated a
> dynamic flowchart on-the-fly.  The code and chart were displayed
> side-by-side. When you changed the code and the flowchart changed
> immediately. (You may also have been able to manipulate the flow chart
> and have it change the code; this was probably 10 years or so ago  
> and my
> memory isn't what it used to be...) I didn't find it all that useful  
> for
> writing new code, but it was fantastic for reverse-engineering old
> existing code.  Unfortunately it was god-awful expensive, something  
> like
> $1000 or more per seat. I couldn't justify that kind of cash, so I  
> gave
> it up after the trial period.
>
> If someone wanted to write a free code analyzer which produced a
> flowchart as a Visio or OmniGraffle diagram, I'd happily use it!
>
> -- 
> Steve King
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Arbor Networks
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