Very Computer

Hi All,
everybody knows how frustrating is to browse manually through large
projects (> 50K lines) of the C/C++ code written by others almost
without  documentation.

I am looking for a good and robust C/C++ source code parser which can
produce extensive cross-references of
files/classes/variables/functions... preferable in HTML format.

So far I tried 'cxref' but it cannot not properly handle all variety of
C-grammar and reports "parse errors" on pretty legal code which compiles
fine.

Any other suggestion ...

Leo

I've used GLOBALS 1.7.  It is nice and simple.  It
creates an HTML-ized version of the source with indexes
to find things by file or by function name.  Once in the
code, function calls are HTML links to take you to the
function.

Unfortunately, it seems that the only symbols it handles
are functions and function-like macros.  I'd like to have
something that handles variables and variable-like macros
as well.

Don't take these comments too negatively.  The elapsed
time from hearing that GLOBALS existed to having
our source code HTML-ized was perhaps half an hour.  That
is fantastic.

The only thing I felt like changing in the source distribution
(already ported to Linux, which I use) was to have it install in
/usr/local/whatever instead of /usr/whatever.

I'm eager to hear about other such packages!

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Quote:> Hi All,
> everybody knows how frustrating is to browse manually through large
> projects (> 50K lines) of the C/C++ code written by others almost
> without  documentation.

> I am looking for a good and robust C/C++ source code parser which can
> produce extensive cross-references of
> files/classes/variables/functions... preferable in HTML format.

> So far I tried 'cxref' but it cannot not properly handle all variety of
> C-grammar and reports "parse errors" on pretty legal code which compiles
> fine.

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Two other usefull packages are:

cxx2html from the AIPS++ project at
http://tarzan.aoc.nrao.edu/aips++/RELEASED/cxx2html/
This program henerates html from c++ header files only
it doesn't format the code but does produce a well formatted
class reference manual

doc++
( sorry can't find address )
This is a complicated package which produces Java applications
to illustrate the inheritance graphs.
Couldn't understand what this was supposed to do.

There are two well known c -> ps prety printers which might
soon have html modes.
a2ps and c2ps, available from any ftp site.

        Martin

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Martin Beckett,   Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

http://wafu.netgate.net/tama/unix/indexe.html

they have samples of the Freebsd and linux source trees
eh-tee-em-elized, browsable with netscape.