| Code navigation for reverse engineering C code question [message #118677] |
Wed, 01 September 2004 19:05 |
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Originally posted by: zamohar.iit.edu
Hi,
I've been told many positive things about Eclipse so I deciced
to give Eclipse a try. I've used CodeWright and Visual Slick Edit
in the past so I'm looking for a tool with bettery reverse
engineering searching capabilities.
I am new (newbie) to Eclipse and I'm wondering if someone could
please help me with the following questions.
I am using clearcase and have created a snapshot view
on my hard drive of some legacy C code. I then went to
Eclipse 3.0 with CDT 2.0 and created a project at the root
were I have my code stored on my hard drive. On my project
I can see all the directories of my legacy C code and the
related files. There are a total of 5000 files as what
Eclipse is showing me when it begins a search.
Whenever I try to do a search of for example a variable or a
simple #define it takes for ever. I compared this to the
Windows XP feature "Search->Search For Files or Folders" and
my Eclipse search did not compare, it was super slow on Eclipse.
All I do in eclipse is go to the "Search" Menu and select
"Search" and enter my search string.
I also usually get a weird "File Searc(Error: Problems encountered
during text search" even though the search completes.
I went on my project in eclipse and right clicked on "Properties",
The properties window came up and I saw that my "C/C++ Project Paths"
has all the directories that I want to search in. My "C/C++ Indexer"
has "Enable C/C++ Indexing" checkmarked. My "Clearcase element
Properities" points to the correct Native Path of my snap shot view. My
"Project
References" has my project name checked. Only thing I don't have is
my "C/C++ Include Pahts & Symbols" path since I'm not sure what to
put there.
I only want to use Eclipse at the present time as a navigation tool
to reverse engineer C code.
Can someone please provide me some ideas on how I can increase the
search speed. I could live with the error for time being.
Thanks for your help.
Harlan
ps...Sorry for the long email. ;)
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