Re: Detect unused header files?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marko Kreen wrote:

> On 8/5/09, Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Sam Ravnborg<sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> >  > Thanks for hacking this up!
> >  >
> >  > I will try it out during the weekend as work permits. Busy...
> >
> > Any updates?
> >
> >  It seems that top level header file including sub component
> >  header file is very common practice, especially on big header
> >  file. From the header file itself is not sufficient to determine
> >  the included header file is a sub component or some thing
> >  new.
>
> Could we have a flag to track top-level headers only?  So that
> anything declared in sub-headers will be registered also under top
> header file?  This seems more useful scanning mode for regular
> user-space code.

  has anyone tried cscout?

http://www.spinellis.gr/cscout/

rday
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