Re: Kernel developers

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@linuxcare.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 16:48:03 EST


* almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch> [000218 13:10]:
> Petko Manolov wrote:
> > Looks good for code browsing. There is something similar at:
> >
> > http://lxr.linux.no/
>
> BTW, it would be a quite worthwhile project for somebody with a bit
> of spare time at their hands to write such a browser that:
>
> - is fast
> - knows about types and how to follow function pointers
> (e.g. that can trace foo->send() to the right set of "send"s)
> - allows navigation in views (e.g. "show all callers of xyzzy",
> then walk over the list of callers to pick the right one)
> - has some concept of additional attributes, e.g. "may sleep",
> "grabs a lock", etc.
> - can look inside macros

I would plainly prefer an AT&T cscope clone. Yes, I know about
"LXR", "id-utils", and "cs"... but none quite cut the mustard.
If you care, I have a schpiel at http://uzix.org/cscope.html
(rather than spam the list on something off-topic).

> - Werner (no, I don't have the time ;-)

- Josh (wondering if I want to take the time)

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