Re: Code analysis, call graphs for Common Lisp

>>>>> "dt" == David Trudgett <<wpower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > writes:

dt> I've been having a bit of a look around for some code to do call
dt> graphs given Common Lisp source code input. One of my purposes is to
dt> find functions that don't get utilised at all (due to code
dt> refactoring, for instance).
dt>
dt> I suspect this sort of analysis might be a difficult task for CL
dt> because of its dynamic nature, macros, and so on and so forth.

I talked about the use of CMUCL's XREF implementation for this kind
of purpose at the 2003 Libre Software Meeting. The slides of the
presentation are at

<URL:http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/tmp/lsm2003-emarsden.pdf>

The file contrib/stale-symbols.lisp in SBCL's source tree might also
be of marginal interest to you.

<URL:http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sbcl/sbcl/contrib/stale-symbols.lisp?rev=1.5&view=auto>

--
Eric Marsden
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