cflow on binary files?

[Marty Leisner]

I've been using cflow and other source reverse engineering tools 
for over 20 years...

I've been playing with the new gnu cflow (and dot).

Mel Gorman did a hack  on gcc to generate flow graphs to dissect the
Linux VM (and other parts of the kernel).

I came across the utility called nmdepend (which I couldn't
get to work).

But it has a wonderful idea -- perform flow analysis on the binary
file...

It seems with a binary compiled with -g, there's useful information
which can be extracted to generate call graphs.  The BIG advantage,
is the source code doesn't have to be parsed -- and the actual code being
compiled is present in the executable.

Comments/opinions?

Marty Leisner
leisner@rochester.rr.com