Re: Snort code

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 08:07 AM 3/31/2004, sumanth subramanian wrote:
> I am a new snort user.I would like to know  the number
> of lines in the snort code.

That's an awful strange question for a snort user... If you really need the 
answer, the source code is freely downloadable from the website, and you 
can use a line-counting tool of your choice on it.



Side rant: IMO "how many lines of code is xxx" is inherently a flawed 
question in the first place, as there's no well defined concept of a "line" 
of code in C. Do you count comments? are compound lines counted as multiple 
lines? what about cascaded assignments? ternary operators?

Even if you can define a "line" the line-count of a program tells you 
nothing of any use in any context. It tells you nothing about the 
complexity of the code, as C can be coded in a very dense or very sparse 
manner. Even byte-count of the source files is more useful than "line 
count", at least that can tell you how much disk storage the source code uses. 



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