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0 pointsjacquesm11y ago0 comments

How does that stop you from making a callgraph?

(On the off chance that you don't know what that is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_graph)

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user124132011y ago· 3 in thread

It doesn't. I was just answering about the code generator thing you mentioned.

100M lines of java code developed 'line-by-line' would make it one of the largest software projects that I've ever heard about.

Without telling you directly that you should disqualify yourself (after all I don't know you), if you don't have the knowledge about the tools employed to deal with medium sized projects (say up to 1M lines) how on earth will you deal with 100 times as much?

klibertp11y ago

> 100M lines of java code developed 'line-by-line'

If it's not generated, then it may be "versioned" that way. I saw projects where the entire codebase was copied over to new directories tens of times, and no previous "version" was ever deleted.

But, after giving it some thought, 100 mloc is really MUCH, like in 50x more than anything I directly worked with. It does sound kind of improbable, but hey, it could happen :)

leoc11y ago

So ... is (some of) this 100M lines the output of a code generator which has since itself been lost? If so, then it seems like a good idea to take a good hard second look for it: scour every nook and cranny for source code, object code, documentation or any surviving evidence (old developer emails?) of how it worked.

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