Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-05 Thread jnf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who had suggestions, i havent had much time to try everything out yet, but ive tried ctags and cscope and between the two of them i think the auditing process can be made to be a little more sane for me- as for

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread Crispin Cowan
jnf wrote: Someone just suggested ctags, I've never heard of ctags or cscope- I will look at them. I don't really know what I was looking for, ctags kind turns C source code into hypertext: you put your cursor on a function call in a source file, press the magic key, and vi[m] jumps to the app

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread Jose Nazario
some advice ... look for tools to generate callgraphs from dynamic (runtime) analysis and static (run them over the compiler binary or the source code) analysis. graphing those relationships can be useful. one example: http://monkey.org/~jose/graphing/syscalls/ look for tools to do contr

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread Paco Hope
On 5/3/04 11:48 AM, "ljknews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:04 AM -0500 5/3/04, jnf wrote: > >> Someone just suggested ctags, I've never heard of ctags or cscope- I will >> look at them. I don't really know what I was looking for, I often find it >> quite furstrating trying to keep track of

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread ljknews
At 10:04 AM -0500 5/3/04, jnf wrote: >Someone just suggested ctags, I've never heard of ctags or cscope- I will >look at them. I don't really know what I was looking for, I often find it >quite furstrating trying to keep track of whats going on across XX global >variables inside of XX internal

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread ljknews
At 5:53 PM -0500 4/30/04, 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 cur

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread jnf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone just suggested ctags, I've never heard of ctags or cscope- I will look at them. I don't really know what I was looking for, I often find it quite furstrating trying to keep track of whats going on across XX global variables inside of XX inte

Re: [SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread James Walden
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

[SC-L] auditing

2004-05-03 Thread jnf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 ju