At 06:20 05.05.2006 -0500, John Love-Jensen wrote: >Hi everyone, > >My apologies for posting off topic. I'm desperate. > >One of my project's general on-going tasks is to eliminate dead code. Sort >of following the Extreme Programming principle. > >Does anyone know of any tool that can help identify fallow routines? > >Can GCC itself help facilitate finding fallow routines that would be >candidates for removal? > >Note: there are hundreds of SSO's and DSO's involved, all written in C or >C++. Which makes finding fallow routines that much more difficult. > >Any suggestions, pointers or recommendations for tools, tips and/or >techniques would be appreciated. > >The "intimate knowledge of your code base" works in the small, but fails in >the large. Doesn't scale. A profiler/coverage analyser may help here, such as gcov. bye Fabi
