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Adam Matan
Adam Matan

Reputation: 136499

Where can I find good open source code flow visualization software?

I am working on an academic research regarding some very long functions in the Linux kernel (link, link).

For that research, I would like to use some code flow visualization tool, that would be able to plot a graph in which each vertex is a decision point and each edge is a piece of code which runs in a consequent way.

Do you know of any good, open source project that can visualize C code?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 10848

Answers (5)

MarcusS
MarcusS

Reputation: 186

I can recommend Sourcetrail. Can work with a compile_commands.json. Not sure if it's still maintained, though. But it's foss and you can fork it!

Upvotes: 0

Duncan Beevers
Duncan Beevers

Reputation: 1820

Perhaps a tool like KCacheGrind would be of help. It generates call graphs based on actual calls and cannot pre-generate a call graph without actually running the program, which may not suit your needs, but then it again it may.

KCacheGrind Call Graph

Upvotes: 9

nik
nik

Reputation: 13468

Doxygen does some amount of 'visualization',
but you need to work on the code a bit for it to be usable.

Another interesting thing to check would be lxr

Linux Cross Referencer is a software toolset for indexing and presenting source code repositories. LXR was initially targeted at the Linux source code, but has proved usable for a wide range of software projects. lxr.linux.no is currently running an experimental fork of the LXR software.

Upvotes: 0

Ira Baxter
Ira Baxter

Reputation: 95420

You appears to want to acquire a flowchart of C source code ("decisions", "code blocks").
Something like this C flowchart?

To do this correctly, esp. for Linux kernal code, I'd expect you to have to preprocess the code first to get rid of macros and conditionals. I would assume that GCC would construct such a graph internally and that you ought to be able to get your hands on that graph.

Upvotes: 1

RandomNickName42
RandomNickName42

Reputation: 5965

History flow's are very neat for changes/diff across multiple versions.

Codeplex has a project, Dependency Visualizer which does support C also.

Gprof2Dot can render oprofile, this would get you dynamic info also.

CodeViz also (static tool) would work.

If your using gcc, gcc-xml has an introspector plugin also todo this.

Upvotes: 1

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