Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

[Paul Lussier]

"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> writes:

> =>>If you want a tool from that class, my fave is idtools. Way superior.
>
> It comes with a tool called mkid which scans a directory hierarchy. It 
> knows about a lot of different languages because it has a different 
> scanner for each language. mkid produces as output a bitmap of all 
> symbols' references and definitions. Then it comes with a a bunch of 
> access tools that each in id.
>
> gid (as in grep id) knows what lines and what files to find the refs.
> eig just lists the files
> aid produces the filenames with a degree of approximation as to how the 
> arg is spelled, 
> etc...

This seems to be the id-utils package in Debian.  Steve, could you
provide a small example of how to get set up with this and how you use
it?

-- 
Seeya,
Paul