Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, Apr 3rd 2006 at 15:58 -0400, quoth Michael ODonnell:

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=>I got some good recommendations here (thanks!) and I meant
=>to follow up on this earlier but I've been scrambling so hard
=>that I've so far only had the time to give one tool (Source
=>Navigator) one hurried try.  Source Navigator appeared to be
=>quite polished and I hope to put it to good use some day.
=>It certainly made a valiant effort but the project I'm involved
=>with has such a tangled collection of source codes that it
=>has reportedly defeated every tool that's been tried.  :-/
=>
=>Meanwhile, I'm soldiering on with Cscope, Ctags and Glimpse...

As long as you understand that none of those are C++ analysis tools.

Cscope is for C and doesn't know anything about the C++ part of C++.
Ctags is only for identifying locations of refs and defs.
Glimpse is a tool for presearching a directory hierarchy.

If you want a tool from that class, my fave is idtools. Way superior.

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