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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Cross referencing symbols (was: do you like?)
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Date: 21 Feb 88 17:43:41 GMT
References: <906@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <17026@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
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In article <17026@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
> I've
>worked for companies that tried to do such cross referencing
>manually.  It was a very expensive overhead, and I'm sure they
>got at least 90% of it correct.

At my last job, they had an excellent facility to cross-reference
symbols to source code from the object modules.  It was a very large
system, and this utility was invaluable, and eliminated the need for a
lot of expensive, quickly out of date commenting.

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