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charmae
charmae

Reputation: 1080

Algorithm Visualization tool for C?

Are there existing algorithm visualization tool for C programs? like visualizing an execution of a C program through animated execution stack.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4346

Answers (5)

Ryan Trainor
Ryan Trainor

Reputation: 51

C Tutor - Visualize C code execution to learn C online

Is a great tool for visualizing the workflow of your C/C++ code - as well as a number of other languages. To my knowledge you cannot enter any command line arguments, but that's the only limitation I can think of. The benefits are that it is free, web based, and very intuitive.

Upvotes: 0

horsh
horsh

Reputation: 2779

Oracle Studio for Linux (former Sun Studio) Performance Analyzer has the timeline feature. That is exactly an animated stack representation.

Like on this screenshot:

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Upvotes: 2

ville
ville

Reputation: 350

For C++, there are educational program visualizers that you might want to try:

  • VIP (Visual InterPreter), you should be able to visualize your own code by editing one of the examples on the site. Supports only a C++ subset, though.
  • The Teaching Machine, can be used as a Java program or an Eclipse plugin.

EDIT: Updated the The Teaching Machine link.

Upvotes: 1

tdmackey
tdmackey

Reputation: 46

I recommend ddd for fancy GUI debugging visualizations. It visualizes all the data structures and makes pretty graphs and gives you access to your regular debugger.

Upvotes: 3

Necrolis
Necrolis

Reputation: 26171

You can try ollydbg with the ollyflow plugin, or have a look at IDA with its call graphing plugin (there are other plugins along these lines as well).

Upvotes: 0

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