Re: free c++ class browser?

[llewelly at 198 dot dsl dot xmission dot com]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Philipp Thomas wrote:

> * Benjamin Kosnik (bkoz@cygnus.com) [19991210 20:39]:
> 
> > Does anybody have any suggestions for a class browser that works well
> > on heavily templatized code (such as v-3) and runs on linux? And is
> > free? Has anybody tried to use CodeCrusader to produce something like
> > /docs/27_io/iostreams_hierarchy.pdf?
> 
> I'd suggest to take a look at the SNiFF+ penguin ide. This is SNiFF+ for C
> and C++ only, a complete multiuser/multiproject ide that TakeFive software
> offers for free without any restrictions.

My  cursory examination reveals a few functionality restrictions on the
  free version. (For example, if you try to do cross referencing, it
  tells you to go get the comercial version.)

> 
> Maybe downloaded after filling out a questionaire from
> http://www.takefive.com/download/penguin.html, a ~20 MB rpm file.
> 
> Philipp
> 
> -- 
>   If God had meant us to be brave, why did he give us legs?
> 

It has the first class browser I have seen that is actually
  useful for libstdc++.

It gets the iostream hierachry correct, but its diagram is nowhere near as
  pretty as docs/27_io/iostreams_hierarchy.pdf

A few bugs:

  I only spent about 20 min playing with it.

  It seems to think namespaces are structs. For example, it shows about
    50 instances of 'struct std' in libstdc++'s class heirarchy. It thinks
    some of them are templated. :) 

  It thinks valarray::operator[] is not a member of valarray ... just a
    member of std.

  It ignores typedefs

  A few functions (for example, binary_compose::operator() ) do not show
     up in its browser.

  It thinks that 'struct FILE   : ::_C_Swamp::_CPP_FILE_capture { };' is
     not derived from  ::_C_Swamp::_CPP_FILE_capture . ( Possibly because
     _CPP_FILE_capture is a typedef? )

Despite the bugs I named above, it is the best C++ class browser I have
seen
  yet.