Re: [TCLUG:7993] Re: offline gprof

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

Thanks to everyone for your replies!  I have forwarded the info to the
person who needs these.  She's very glad that she doesn't have to do this
stuff by hand.

You're right, Daniel.  A search on the Web turned up a lot of stuff.  I
would have found it sooner if I had known what it is called. I searched on
"call tree", and came up with a list of tools.  But I don't think that any
of them had good graphical outputs.  Most of them were CLI tools that gave
ASCII representations of the call hierarchy.  Some of these sound really
nice.

Thanks,
Chris


On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Daniel Mahler wrote:

> 
> On Linux there are several tools for software visualisation
> that run on Linux.
> I do not have the URLS handy but I here are the names,
> a good search engine will find them:
> 
> Cygnus Source Navigator (SN) 
> Sniff+
> CIA/CIA+/CIAO (downloadable from www.reasearch.att.com)
> Rigi
> Lackwit
> CStar
> Elbereth
> Gen++
> 
> SN and Sniff+ are actually multilanguage commercial IDEs,
> and seem very similar in design.
> They can visualise call, inheritace and include/import graphs.
> They can also do sophisticated pattern searches (on the argument type
> for example).
> There are time limited demos of both.
> SuSE is distributed with SN-lite,
> this is a permanent license but limited to projects under 50000 lines
> (you have to email Cygnus for the key).
> SN-professional is affordable. There is also SN-eneterptise.
> Sniff+ is rather expensive.
> SN supports C++, Java and TCL.
> I use SN with xemacs plugged in as the editor.
> With JDE loaded into xemacs,
> it makes a killer Java IDE.
> 
> The CIA tools are excellent for c/c++ analysis/visualisation.
> They also display other dependencies than just call graphs.
> They are free for noncommercial  use if I remeber correctly.
> The the graph visualisation is better than in SN & Sniff.
> I think the query/indexing may be better in SN though.
> If you only want C/C++ these may serve you better than SN.
> 
> Rigi is a free academic tool designed primarily just for visalisation.
> It has the most powerful graphical capabilities,
> but the supplied C analyzer is not the best.
> The visual front-end actually works from flat file databases,
> so you can use it with analyzers from other tools.
> It is written in Tcl/Tk.
> 
> Lackwit is a free  academic C visualisation tool.
> It is worth checking out
> 
> CStar and Elbereth implement Griswolds Star Diagrams
> for C and Java respectively.
> These are graphs which show data dependencies in code:
> more fine grained than just call graphs.
> I have not played enough with these to  offer more opinion.
> 
> I know very little about Gen++. It may not even run on linux
> 
> Xemacs OOBR is very useful but does not actually display call graphs.
> 
> It is worth looking around on the net.
> These kinds of tools have come into fashion because of Y2K,
> and new ones are likely to pop up.
> 
> regards
> Daniel Mahler
> 
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