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Re: C/C++ tools

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On 2011-03-08 00:15:59 -0500, Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> said:

> In article <2011030714242616807-me@foonet>, John Holt <me@foo.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> I am working through the port of a system from Linux to Mac OS X (more
>> like Free BSD since there are no GUI features).
>> 
>> The code is in C and C++, and already has a significant number of OS
>> specific compile conditionals for Windows and Linux.
>> 
>> Can XCode show the boundaries or nesting of #if (#ifdef, #ifndef,
>> #else) blocks?   Are there any tools that will show the boundaries?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
> 
> XCode is mostly useless.  It knows source code syntax but not the data
> structures that it correlates to.
> 
> I use Eclipse for Java but the C++ editor seems to be coming along
> nicely.  I just opened a test C++ project and it had deep source
> analysis.  It could show the value of each macro and it grayed out
> source that was omitted from conditionals.

Thanks.  I'll give it a try.


-- 
John Holt

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