From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: soraberri <421246@posta.unizar.es> Subject: Re: development tools for interpreting code Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:48:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org soraberri wrote: > Hi all, > > In this stage of my learning I am basically trying to understand some > code that others have develop. The code is about bluetooth tools but > this is unrelevant at this moment. Rigth now I'm using Kdevelop for this > task with the source that I want to understand loaded into a new > project, and I always find the same problem which I will describe you in > terms of an example: > > at some point of the code I find a call to a function or a typedef name > (for exmple str2ba) and I would like to find the header file or even the > source file where this function (or type) is defined. I can only use the > Grep:str2ba command found under "Find in files..." dialog but sometimes > this is not suitable because I have to tell manually the path from the > starting point of the search, and if I don't know exactly the rigth > folder, the number of results searched can be too many for examining. I > guess it may be a better way, since the program compiles and has the > appropiate includes (#include
), so the compiler must know where > the function is defined. > > So, every suggestions would be wellcome, > > thaks in advance > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-c-programming" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Thank you for all your help. I'll study a bit all these choices and will try out. very helpful posts!