Recent postings show that some readers have difficulty finding code in the gcc source tree, which is not surprising, given that the gcc-4.2-20061007 release has 12,327 source files in C and C++, 5870 files in Java, and 2,223,569 + 1,306,107 lines of code in those files for C/C++ + Java. There are several hundred thousand lines of Ada, Fortran, and likely other languages as well. One free tool that I've found particularly helpful in dealing with this problem is cscope: http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ cscope runs in a simple text window: no GUI is required, or desired. cscope builds a database (a simple top-level file called cscope.out) on the first run that it can use to quickly find points of reference and of definition, of functions and macros. It has an incremental update capability, so it is easy to keep the database up to date as you modify source code. Sun SunOS and Solaris systems have had cscope since 1992 (from dates embedded in /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cscope), and cscope's Web page traces its heritage back to the PDP-11 in the early 1980s: http://cscope.sourceforge.net/history.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@xxxxxxx beebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
