Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

Jeffrey Creem jeff at thecreems.com
Wed Mar 22 12:07:00 EST 2006


Michael ODonnell wrote:

>I've joined an established project and I'm trying to come up to
>speed with their (complex!) C++ code and could use some help
>in divining how all the pieces fit together.  I'm doing all the
>usual WWW searches but also wanted to get recommendations from
>the GNHLUG; anybody know of good sourcecode analysis tools for C++
>that run on Linux?  We already have ctags and Cscope and though
>they're occasionally (accidentally) useful they're basically
>not up to the task of grokking all the class hierarchies and such.
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Try understand for C++ from scitools 
(http://scitools.com/products/understand/cpp/product.php) - though the 
website seems a bit messed up right now.
I believe it runs under Linux.


If you want something free, perhaps looking at doxygen.

Obviously eclipse with the CDT can be useful for some of the more simple 
tasks.




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