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  Re: understanding someone else's program Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2013-11-15 14:49 +0100

#59517 — Re: understanding someone else's program

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> 
> Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program where
> - documentation is sparse
> - in function A, there will be calls to function B, C, D.... and in
> those functions will be calls to functions R,S,T.... and so on so
> forth... making it difficult to trace what happens to a certain
> variable
> 
> Am using ERIC4 IDE.
> 
> Thanks.

If the documentation is sparse, writing the doc yourself is one way to dive into someone else's code. To begin with, you can stick to the function purpose, and for the WTF functions try to document the parameters and return values as well.

It may take a lot of time depending on how good the current code is.

JM


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