Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:23:18 -0300
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dmeasc DOT rc DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: RHIDE Browser idea
To: Kevin W Rogovin <ukwr AT mcl DOT ucsb DOT edu>
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On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Kevin W Rogovin wrote:

> 
> I have another suggestion for RHIDE (tell me if its already made,or in the
> works....please) 
> 	Would it be diffucult to use the programs nm.exe and cxxfilt
> (both in your bin directory of djgpp V2) to implement a browser...
> and for that matter possibly a " (text) graphical" class tree?
> This is what I'm thinking: you use nm.exe and cxxfilt to get
> all the functions in a piece of compiled code, then (this part I
> do not see how to do)Somehow get the line numbers of the varios functions
> Then one can make a browser window listing all the functions, click on
> a function name and then the source file for that function pops up..
> Anyways I've found that a browser can be really nice to have, I remeber
> when I first used Visual C++ V1.00, and though the browser really sped
> up my ability to, well, code.
> 
> 	-Sincerely,
> 
> 		Kevin Rogovin
> 
I'm afraid this functionality could be more easily implemented using the 
etags package.

Even more rich in features would be to port the cflow program to djgpp 
and from its display in one window be able to find its tag and eventually 
'land' in its line at the source file it is defined.