Re: auditing

[James Walden <jwalden () eecs utoledo edu>]

jnf wrote:
hi, simple question that is not very technicla in itself- when auditing 
software, I often find it had to stay focused and follow the code so to 
speak, especially when jumping across X source files and Y functions 
inside of each source file, I was just curious how others cope with such 
things? I've just been using vi/text editors to go through it all and I 
don't really expect there is a solve all answer, but any hints help.

thoughts?


Are you looking for tools, like ctags or cscope for walking through a 
source code base within vi (cscope is quite nice, though I use enscript 
to print out the source and do most of my code reading on paper)?  You 
may find the book Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective by Spinellis 
useful.


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James Walden, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of EECS
The University of Toledo @ LCCC
http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~jwalden/