Chapter 10. Code-Reading Tools
Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
—Winston Churchill
When reading code you are most of the time fortunate enough to have the code accessible on-line. This means you can process the source code with tools to enhance your reading efficiency and understanding. The following are typical tasks you might want to perform on a body of code.
• Identify the declaration of a particular entity to determine the type of a function, variable, method, template, or interface.
• Locate where a particular entity is defined, for example, find the body of a function or class.
• Go through the places where an entity is used.
• List deviations from coding standards.
• Discover code structures that might help you understand ...
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