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On Jul 24, 2015, at 11:45 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> A cross reference doesn't help you understand the code, or know why
> it's designed the way it is.

A bit strong. This week, I find myself on a code review committee, with the assignment to verify that the caller of every function that returns an error code is correctly detecting and handling it. But I don’t really need a fancy cross-reference tool: grep is serving just fine.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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