[TUHS] Re: Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share?

[Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>]

Marcus Clark <marcus.e.clark@outlook.com> writes:

> Wikipedia has a brief page on cscope, which has a link  to
> https://cscope.sourceforge.net/history.html
> written by Harold Bamford, in which he talks about the
> early days of cscope at Bell Labs and its inventor Joe Steffan.
>
> I wondered if anyone can add any interesting information about using
> cscope on their projects or anything about its development.
>
> -Marcus.


A long time ago on the project I was on when I was at AT&T / Lucent, the
department I was in had a wrapper shell script around cscope.  We used
this wrapper to query the source of the product that we worked on.  The
source, at the time, was huge and cscope was about the only thing around
that let you search the source with the least amount of pain.  The
wrapper script simply invoked cscope in a safe way that kept it from
accidently re-indexing the source code when the developer didn't mean to
do that.  We did re-indexes in a cron job every once in a while.

Since the source to cscope is available now, it has made it into pkgsrc
and I use it on the NetBSD source tree all of the time.




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