Re: xref Nostalgia

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From: Mike Spencer
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 07:34

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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:

> I guess once we went from paper listings to screens, good editors,
> and grep, the need for cross-reference listings faded.  I used to be a
> cross-reference fanatic; I wrote utilities that would cross-reference
> JCL libraries (jobs using a given program, file name, or DDname), and
> source libraries (modules using a given macro or DDname).

As a total amteur learning C on CP/M, I became vexed with multi-file
programs -- my own and others' -- and wrote an xref utility.  Its ad
hoc parser was a little feeble, didn't handle well typedefs or
gratuitous pointers to functions but it untangled intractable messes
for me and was, besides, itself a great learning project.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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