xref and referred by?

[dave.banham@tde.alstom.com]

I too have also experienced this frustrating problem and I don't believe it is
anything to do with the fact that the xref database is still being
(re-)constructed - at least there is no progress bar indication.

I quite often end up using the grep tool to find the references - which it does
- but in doing so I am left questioning the accuracy of the xref tool. If xref
reports no referenced by information then I will try grep, but if it reports
some referenced by information am I seeing the complete picture or just part of
it?

Regards
Dave Banham





Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@messagingdirect.com> on 17/10/2000 16:45:41

To:   sourcenav <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
cc:    (bcc: Dave BANHAM/PCS/PCG/TDE/GECALSTHOM)
Subject:  Re: xref and referred by?



Lonnie L VanZandt <tsys@uswest.net> writes:

> Why is it that many times the Referenced By information is
> unavailable? More often than not, I want to see who calls a function
> and not what that function calls. However, I can't seem to get SN to
> display the Referenced By information.

xref requires that certain databases be completely constructed.  The
first time you run source navigator on a project, these can take some
time to construct (potentially hours, for large projects and/or slow
machines).  There's a progress bar in the bottom right corner of any
SN windows while this is going on.

After the first time, SN should be faster to start up.

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