What is a good tool to aid in browsing/following C code? [closed]

Answer 1

I use and like the free software tool GNU global.

Answer 2

Any IDE will work fine. Netbeans and Eclipse are java based but have plugins for C/C++

Answer 3

I use Vim with ctags and taglist plugins. You can move the cursor to a variable name and with a key combination it will take you to the declaration of the variable (and back). Taglist will also show an overview of all functions, classes etc. in a side bar.

Answer 4

IntelliJ is pretty good as a source browser under Linux. It's got really good support for jumping between source and function declarations. Haven't tried it with C/C++ code, but it works well with Ruby and Java.

Answer 5

I've not used it directly, but I have used sites created with lxr and thought it very handy. It converts your project into line-numbered and cross-referenced HTML files, using links to cross-reference function and file names. There are some examples of projects source indexed with it here.

It doesn't appear that there is a version newer than 2006, but it may still work for what you want.

Answer 6

I use Source-Navigator(TM) from here. It is quite impressive and helps a lot. It is written in Tcl/Tk, is available as an executable for windows and as source code ready to build on *nix.