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Tony Lima
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I have the source code for a moderately large
C++ program. Not knowing much about C++ I still have to
understand how the pieces of this program fit together. Can
anyone recommend some sort of documentation and/or code
analysis tool for C++? Thanks. - Tony Lima
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samuelzx@gmail.com
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:22 am Post subject: Re: Needed: Code analysis tool |
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Source Navigator and Source Insight are two good tools. The first is
Open Souce tool.
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Stefan Näwe
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: Re: Needed: Code analysis tool |
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Tony Lima wrote:
| Quote: | I have the source code for a moderately large
C++ program. Not knowing much about C++ I still have to
understand how the pieces of this program fit together. Can
anyone recommend some sort of documentation and/or code
analysis tool for C++? Thanks. - Tony Lima
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Try 'doxygen'.
Stefan
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Maciej Sobczak
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Needed: Code analysis tool |
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Tony Lima wrote:
| Quote: | I have the source code for a moderately large
C++ program. Not knowing much about C++ I still have to
understand how the pieces of this program fit together. Can
anyone recommend some sort of documentation and/or code
analysis tool for C++? Thanks. - Tony Lima
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Try doxygen. It not only generates hyperlinked docs for the code, but
can also draw diagrams for class inheritance and function calls - these
two are extremely helpful for attacking foreign code.
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Michael Jørgensen
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Needed: Code analysis tool |
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"Tony Lima" <tonylima2 (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote
| Quote: | I have the source code for a moderately large
C++ program. Not knowing much about C++ I still have to
understand how the pieces of this program fit together. Can
anyone recommend some sort of documentation and/or code
analysis tool for C++? Thanks. - Tony Lima
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Look up Doxygen. YMMV.
-Michael.
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Francis Glassborow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Needed: Code analysis tool |
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In article <pj8ql11culk1p72mh7mdub06c1hl5qhie5 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Tony Lima
<tonylima2 (AT) att (DOT) net> writes
| Quote: | I have the source code for a moderately large
C++ program. Not knowing much about C++ I still have to
understand how the pieces of this program fit together. Can
anyone recommend some sort of documentation and/or code
analysis tool for C++? Thanks. - Tony Lima
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I have a number of books about Go written in Japanese. In order to
understand them I needed to learn to read enough Japanese to make sense
of them. You have a chunk of C++ source code, in order to make sense of
it you will need to learn quite a bit of C++ at least to the level of
reading it, though not to writing it.
You do not mention what programming languages you are already fluent in
(and if the answer is 'none' then I would hazard a guess that you are
not yet ready to even learn to read C++)
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Tony Lima
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Needed: Code analysis tool |
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On 25 Oct 2005 11:59:50 -0400, Francis Glassborow
<francis (AT) robinton (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <pj8ql11culk1p72mh7mdub06c1hl5qhie5 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Tony Lima
[email]tonylima2 (AT) att (DOT) net[/email]> writes
I have the source code for a moderately large
C++ program. Not knowing much about C++ I still have to
understand how the pieces of this program fit together. Can
anyone recommend some sort of documentation and/or code
analysis tool for C++? Thanks. - Tony Lima
I have a number of books about Go written in Japanese. In order to
understand them I needed to learn to read enough Japanese to make sense
of them. You have a chunk of C++ source code, in order to make sense of
it you will need to learn quite a bit of C++ at least to the level of
reading it, though not to writing it.
You do not mention what programming languages you are already fluent in
(and if the answer is 'none' then I would hazard a guess that you are
not yet ready to even learn to read C++)
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Good point. I am reasonably fluent in Fortran, PL/1, and
various flavors of xBase. I've written a bit of assembly
language. Over the years I've also written BASIC (hasn't
everyone?) and smatterings of Paradox (for you old-timers
out there), IBM system 360 JCL and a few other things.
I'm learning some C++. I guess I'll decide whether it's
enough when I take a look at the output from doxygen. Many
thanks to those who recommended it. - Tony
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