From:	Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Function Call Hiearchy Diagram Tool
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:19:32 +0100
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Paul Peavyhouse wrote:
> 
>         Does anyone know if there are any utilities that will build a
> hierarchy diagram of function calls in a program's source code?  The diagram

From the source code?? What a sense shuold this make?

> should look like a Windows Explorer tree, with "void main(void)" (or whatever)
> at the top (level 0), and ever function called from main would be drawn as a
> node off main with a level of 1, and every function from those functions would
> be drawn as another node off those nodes, etc etc.

And what is, if you have recursive functions? 

>         This seems like a really useful tool for tracing function calls to
> deeper and deeper levels, and I thought that there may be a tool like this

You can use in RHIDE the "Call stack" window when debugging to get
the function call history or in GDB you can use the backtrace 
command.

Robert
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