7.4. Using cscope and cbrowser

The cscope is a very useful utility to browse through the source code tree of a large project. It was originally written by Santa Cruz Operations and made public later on. You can download it from http://cscope.sourceforge.net. For Linux, it is available in RPM format as well.

It is a text-mode screen-oriented utility. When you start it using the cscope command, the initial screen looks like the one shown in Figure 7-1.

Figure 7-1. The cscope initial screen.

When invoked, cscope first creates its symbol file cscope.out in the current directory that contains a reference to symbols in source code files. This reference ...

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