Listing C/C++ functions (Code analysis in Unix)

Question

Whether we\'re maintaining unfamiliar code or checking out the implementation details of an Apache module it can help if we can quickly traverse the code and build up an ove

Answer 1

cscope is very good for this sort of thing. Unlike ctags, cscope provides an interface suitible for searching (ctags requires an editor).

Just run cscope in the root directory of the code you want to inspect. It will: create a database if one isn't there, update the database if one is there, and open a curses gui where you can query all sorts of useful info

• all references to a symbol
• global definitions
• functions called by a function
• functions calling a function
• text string
• regular expression pattern
• a file
• files including a file

ctags only does the first one, 'all references to a symbol'.