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programming tools to list functions/variables
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| hi all,
is there any Open Source tool that i can use to list functions and
variables in a given source code tree (C, C++). there are times when i
want to know what functions are available and combined with cscope it
helps with better understanding of a project i learned.
i'm also interested on what tools u guys have been using all along
(other than emacs, vi, sed, etc) and in what way it helped. (btw, sorry
if it such a newbie question 
thanks for any help in advance.
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| Diomidis Spinellis 2006-04-27, 7:56 am |
| vr wrote:
> is there any Open Source tool that i can use to list functions and
> variables in a given source code tree (C, C++). there are times when i
> want to know what functions are available and combined with cscope it
> helps with better understanding of a project i learned.
CScope already gives you the information you want. If you want a tool
with a lower overhead, running a version of ctags on a collection of
source code files will create a tags file listing every global variable,
function and structure definition. You can also run nm on the compiled
object files to get similar information.
--
Diomidis Spinellis
Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective (Addison-Wesley 2006)
http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality?cup
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