safron@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Sean S. Safron) (12/12/90)
I am looking for some C code analysis tools that will allow users to more easily understand a C program's structure and flow. I have looked at the standard UNIX tool, cflow, and it does not completely meet my needs. I would like to find some kind of graphical front end to cflow that would run in X-Windows and show a tree structure of the function calls in a C program. Another tool that I have used is C-Scope from AT&T. This tool allows the user to find out things like which functions call which other functions. This allows one to check the flow of a C program rather quickly, however, its limitation is that it does not show more than one level of function calls at a time. The user must step through each level one by one to get down to the lowest level functions. I am looking for either an extension to C-Scope or something similar that allows a user to browse the full tree of function calls more easily. Finally, if there are any other C code analysis tools that anyone has found useful, please let me know. -- Sean S. Safron IBM Corp. uunet!ibmps2!aix!safron "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."