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Source Code Browsers?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-to-achieve-code-nirvana dept.

patonw asks: "I just started working for a company as a programmer on a project with a huge existing codebase. The person hiring me half-jokingly said that it usually takes new employees two years before they understand the system. What I am looking for is not just an editor/browser but a program that displays functions and classes as connected graphs -- preferably free. I would like to view how programs are structured by function calls and class relations. I have access to several different kinds of platforms/operating systems."

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  1. Source Navigator by IYagami · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sponsored by RedHat:

    http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/

    From the FAQ:
    Source-Navigator supports C, C++, Java, Tcl, [incr Tcl], FORTRAN and COBOL, and provides and SDK so that you can write your own parsers.

    Use Source-Navigator to:

    * Analyze how a change will effect external source modules.
    * Find every place in your code where a given function is called.
    * Find each file that includes a given header file.
    * Use the grep tool to search for a given string in all your source files.