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Article #620751Re: xref Nostalgia
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:54
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:54
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On 2018-03-05, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: > 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. One of the first C programs I wrote (and still use from time to time) checks for unbalanced braces, parentheses, and brackets. I wrote it to track down syntax errors in the program I was really working on. I've come to realize that my true calling is as a toolmaker. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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X-Received: by 10.223.180.86 with SMTP id v22mr1422691wrd.1.1520269389883; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:03:09 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.28.214.21 with SMTP id n21ls1531436wmg.10.canary-gmail; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:03:09 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.28.184.23 with SMTP id i23mr339789wmf.32.1520269389001; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:03:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!n24ni2753wmi.0!nntp.google.com!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.stw-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.unit0.net!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: xref Nostalgia Date: 5 Mar 2018 16:54:13 GMT Organization: NewsGuy.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: <p7jsnl02ie0@news7.newsguy.com> References: <fennrjFber7U1@mid.individual.net> <slrnp98rhs.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <1463069258.541386219.019217.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <slrnp9e76p.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <p77oom$r49$1@gal.iecc.com> <p79gtm12msl@news1.newsguy.com> <87lgf7asbi.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> NNTP-Posting-Host: p5be0277ac1ee438c06d499d684b273088a280e4d2782460e.newsdawg.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-Received-Body-CRC: 3353923916 X-Received-Bytes: 2203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit