Re: [Cscope-devel] flex/yacc finding: why not use automake?

[Mike Hopkirk(hops) <ho...@sc...>]

On Fri May 12,2000 (05:41:44PM +0200), br...@ph...(Hans-Bernhard Broeker) wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> 
> > a copy of already before cscope was released.  Besides cs, there
> > are a few alternatives out there... id-utils, lxr, global, etc.
> 
> id-utils? not exactly targeted at C development, IMHO

On what grounds do you base that opinion ?

I use it heavily and rather successfully for browsing the OSR5 source tree 
(coupla hundred meg of C/C++/asm and script source )
- in conjunction with cscope ... they both have their strengths.

> But there's at least one other one worth mentioning: cxref. The main
> advantage it has over cscope is that it crossreferences variables, too,
> not just functions. And it can document visibility of declarations, along
> with their actual usage. Good to have if you're trying to modularize an
> existing source base that never really heard of header files, before...

Are you referring to an opensource version or the one that  comes as part 
of most commercial unices devsys ?
If opensrc do you have a home page URL ??

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- hops

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