[cfe-dev] Clang to flowchart

[Douglas Gregor]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Brendan Simon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to produce some flowcharts and workflows from a complex
> multit-hreaded C++ codebase.
> 
> I was thinking that gcc-xml might be useful so I asked on the mailing
> list, and they suggested that Clang might be a useful option.
> 
> Are there any tools based on Clang that can produce flowcharts/workflows
> so I can get a better picture of how the complex multit-hreaded C++
> operates ??

Internally, Clang has the facilities to build a control-flow graph. You could build on top of that.

> Is there suitable output from Clang about all the function calls, etc
> (e.g. in xml format) that can be used to generate UML or flowcharts or
> other documents ??


Clang has an XML format, but it's not rich enough to be useful for this purpose.

	- Doug