Re: [bug-cflow] Suggestion for cflow

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Jeff <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Hi. Thanks for making cflow available.

Hi Jeff. Sorry it took me so long to reply.
 
> Due to the nature of software I develop, I sometimes have functions accessed 
> through a pointer table. Cflow apparently only traces functions called 
> directly or indirectly from main(), and outputs nothing about functions 
> accessed through tables.

Yes, to tell the truth, I often have the same problem:)

> An old DOS program I used to have (I don't recall the name of it) had the 
> ability to trace such "orphaned functions". Do you think that feature could 
> be added to cflow?

Yes, it could. This feature is already in my TODO list. Implementing it
requires rewriting the parser to do more in-depth analysis of the
code, but, apart from that, I don't see any difficulties. I will inform
you when I have something ready for testing.

Regards,
Sergey