Re: C, C++ static code visualization

Francis Herne <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:02:26 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop
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On Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:28:08 BST Dave Tavares wrote:
> Hi team,
> 
> I am interested in understanding your call tree capabilities for C++ 14 or
> later. I could not find documentation... could you point me to it?
> What does the color-coding signify?
> [cid:[email protected]]
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave Tavares
> Corporate Quality
> Synopsys

Hi Dave,

This looks like the 'kdev-control-flow-graph' plugin, which is currently 
unmaintained and won't work with recent versions of KDevelop.

The APIs haven't changed much, so it could probably be brought back to a 
usable state fairly quickly if someone was interested in doing so.

The source code can be found here:
https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdev-control-flow-graph/-/tree/master

I think the best documentation of what it does and why is the series of blog 
posts by Sandro Andrade, the primary author:

https://liveblue.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/kdevelop-in-gsoc-what-does-your-code-look-like/
https://liveblue.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/visualize-your-code-in-kdevelop/
https://liveblue.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/2-visualize-your-code-in-kdevelop/
https://liveblue.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/3-visualize-your-code-in-kdevelop/
https://liveblue.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/gsoc-wrap-up-static-code-visualization-in-kdevelop/

(yes, we should probably try to have documentation that isn't random blog 
posts...)

I believe nodes were coloured according to their project and/or namespace, but 
it's been a while since I used it and I can't find a clear mention in the posts 
above.

Maybe others can give you more information, but that's what I know...

Yours,
-Francis Herne

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