Looking for static analysis tool to generate call graphs

[Zajcev Evgeny]

Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> writes:

> I'd like to generate static call graphs from sections of src/sys/kern,
> src/sys/net, and src/sys/netinet, and ideally, get an output that looks
> pretty when printed to a (perhaps large) piece of paper.  It doesn't need
> to be able to handle function pointer magic in structures (vnode
> operations, socket operations, file descriptor operations, sysinits, etc); 
> I just want a fairly high-level graph to get a feel for particular chunks
> of code spanning a couple of C files.  Anyone have any recommendations? 
> Preferably something that can actually parse the variant of C we use in
> our kernel :-). 
>

I used patch to gcc to output call graph in dot format based on parse
tree generated by gcc year or so ago.  It was pretty nice, but I dont
awared is this patch yet supported or not.  You can find some info
about it at http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/mm.htm

> Thanks,
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
>
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