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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? |
| Date | 2012-04-11 08:04 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <9uji1iFfs6U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <jm1l4g$a6e$1@dont-email.me> |
On 04/11/12 03:54 AM, mathog wrote: > Mostly when I program it is maintenance work - making little tweaks and > corrections to other people's code. The C++ books and tutorials are all > clear and wonderful about objects and methods but they only ever give > toy examples. In real world programs it seems that the code is always a > morass of object types and methods, often with similar names. > (Resulting in: "yes, 'print', but which 'print'?"). I find it extremely > difficult to find in such code where actions actually occur, or in many > cases what earlier events led to an issue later in the program. > > Presumably there are tools to help with this that I should be using but > am not. What are these tools? If somebody knows of a tutorial or > reference on how to deal with complex code like this, please share it. I use Oracle's version of NetBeans (Solaris studio) which has pretty good code browsing capabilities. Standard NetBeans or Eclipse should do much the same. -- Ian Collins
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Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2012-04-10 08:54 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? "K. Frank" <kfrank29.c@gmail.com> - 2012-04-10 12:55 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2012-04-11 09:23 -0700
Writing extensions, like VBA "macros", Perl or JavaScript. @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-04-11 11:22 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2012-04-11 14:35 -0500
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-11 21:53 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2012-04-12 12:01 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? "K. Frank" <kfrank29.c@gmail.com> - 2012-04-11 16:06 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Christopher Pisz <someone@somewhere.net> - 2012-04-12 11:46 -0500
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-12 22:32 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-04-13 02:16 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-15 10:21 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-15 19:33 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-16 09:59 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-15 21:32 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-17 09:32 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-04-17 02:06 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-17 11:35 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-17 16:06 +1200
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-04-17 15:24 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-18 04:50 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-04-17 20:18 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-18 10:31 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-04-18 01:36 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-18 11:00 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-18 22:09 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-19 11:41 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-18 23:04 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-19 13:33 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-19 15:56 +1200
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-19 22:54 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-20 14:31 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Tobias Müller <troplin@bluewin.ch> - 2012-04-16 06:39 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-18 22:25 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-19 13:58 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-19 23:39 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-22 16:37 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-04-19 23:20 +0200
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-19 23:54 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-04-17 03:50 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-17 12:01 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-11 08:04 +1200
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-10 22:26 +0000
Rewrite it. @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-04-10 16:31 -0700
Re: Rewrite it. nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-04-11 01:20 -0700
Re: Rewrite it.  Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-11 10:06 +0100
Re: Rewrite it. nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-04-11 03:45 -0700
Building a "house" that you can live in for decades to come. @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-04-11 08:52 -0700
Re: Building a "house" that you can live in for decades to come. Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-12 13:19 +0900
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? "K. Frank" <kfrank29.c@gmail.com> - 2012-04-10 17:37 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-12 21:40 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? michael.boehnisch@gmail.com - 2012-04-10 17:29 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-11 10:02 +0100
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-11 22:36 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2012-04-11 16:05 -0700
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-11 19:37 -0500
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-12 21:48 -0400
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-04-15 09:56 +0000
Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> - 2012-04-15 19:43 -0400
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