RE: [GD-General] C++ analyzers?

[Brian S. <bs...@mi...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thatcher Ulrich [mailto:tu...@tu...]=20
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-General] C++ analyzers?
>=20
> > We have tools to automatically generate code and do all=20
> other kinds of
> > fluff crap, but if you actually want something that can go=20
> through and
> > rename all instances of "m_foo" for all instances of class=20
> "CBar", it
> > doesn't seem possible.
>=20
> Well, the compiler can sure help:
>=20
> 1. rename "m_foo" to "m_foobar" in the header
>=20
> 2. compile
>=20
> 3. visit each compile error and fix by hand (or with an editor macro
>    if it's a big job)

I do this too but it makes me wary and there's always room for me to
mess it up.  Sure the code compiles, but is it right?  Maybe I mistyped
"m_fobar" for one of those substitution and my base class just so
happened to have one of those.

Now, an uber-script that makes the name substitution project-wide,
rebuilds the project, and checks to see that the output binaries are
bitwise identical...that would be cool.  I would trust that a lot more
than my highly fallible self.

--brian