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CScout is a source code analyzer and refactoring browser for
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collections of C programs. It can process workspaces of multiple
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projects (we define a project as a collection of C source files
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that are linked together) mapping the complexity introduced by the
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C preprocessor back into the original C source code files. CScout
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takes advantage of modern hardware advances (fast processors and
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large memory capacities) to analyze C source code beyond the level
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of detail and accuracy provided by current compilers and linkers.
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The analysis CScout performs takes into account the identifier
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scopes introduced by the C preprocessor and the C language proper
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scopes and namespaces. CScout has already been applied on projects
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ranging from tens of thousands of lines, like the apache web server
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(using 36MB of memory, taking 6 minutes on a 500MHz Celeron processor),
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to above a million lines of code, like the FreeBSD kernel (using
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813MB of memory, taking 3 hours 42 minutes on a 900MHz Itanium 2
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processor).
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2003-07-10 16:47:34 +02:00
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This free unsupported version of CScout is distributed under the terms
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of the CScout Public License, which is available in the accompanying
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documentation.
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WWW: http://www.spinellis.gr/cscout/
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