From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Stroesslin <thomas.stroesslin@epfl.ch>
To: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Xref and find declaration of variables
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 09:10:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105011800580.28286-100000@mantrasun3.epfl.ch>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00122.html

consider the following "project":

myfile.c :

int myglobalvar;
int myfunc(int myarg) {
  int mylocalvar;
  int myvar;

  myvar = 1;
  mylocalvar = 1;
  myarg = 1;
  myglobalvar=1;
}

myotherfile.c :

int myvar; // which is global
...

I am working on myfile.c and try to find out things about my variables:

1) find declaration of myvar on the assignment line -> leads me to myvar
     of myotherfile.c (don't you have scope info in the db?)

2) same as 1) for mylocalvar
   -> doesn't find anything, doesn't report error -> does nothing!

3) same as 1) for myarg
   -> same as 2)

4) myglobalvar referred by -> finds nothing

5) myvar or mylocalvar or myarg referred by in function myfunc()
   -> same as 4


all these features are available in sniff+. IMHO, they are among the top
10 most importand code analysis features (the other 5 are working in
sourcenavigator, good stuff)

do you plan to include such features in future releases of
sourcenavigator? If so, when - roughly - can I expect them to be
implemented?

cheers,
tom