Beyond LOC

[n.torrey.pines]

Is there a program/script for meaningful comparison of C/C++ code
sizes? I guess what I would consider meaningful is the number of tokens
(excluding comments but before preprocessing) except brackets, braces
and commas in function calls and macro applications, or something along
these lines.

I googled a bit, but found nothing.

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?=]

On Jan 16, 12:26 am, [e-mail] wrote:

Is there a program/script for meaningful comparison of C/C++ code
sizes? I guess what I would consider meaningful is the number of tokens
(excluding comments but before preprocessing) except brackets, braces
and commas in function calls and macro applications, or something along
these lines.

I googled a bit, but found nothing.

This is quite off-topic here, but try googling again for "code metric
c++" and you might find something. There are many ways to measure code
and LOC is perhaps one of the least informative, there's something
called Logical LOC which is more useful if you are interested in
code-size.

--
Erik Wikström

[Ian Collins]

n.************@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a program/script for meaningful comparison of C/C++ code
sizes? I guess what I would consider meaningful is the number of tokens
(excluding comments but before preprocessing) except brackets, braces
and commas in function calls and macro applications, or something along
these lines.

How would that be meaningful and to whom?

--
Ian Collins.

[peter koch]

Ian Collins skrev:

n.************@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a program/script for meaningful comparison of C/C++ code
sizes? I guess what I would consider meaningful is the number of tokens
(excluding comments but before preprocessing) except brackets, braces
and commas in function calls and macro applications, or something along
these lines.

How would that be meaningful and to whom?

It could be meaningful e.g. as part of a code review as it gives you a
hint as to what functions are complex and thus potential candidates for
refactoring.

/Peter

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?=]

On Jan 16, 10:46 am, "peter koch" <[e-mail]:

Ian Collins skrev:

[e-mail] wrote:

Is there a program/script for meaningful comparison of C/C++ code
sizes? I guess what I would consider meaningful is the number of tokens
(excluding comments but before preprocessing) except brackets, braces
and commas in function calls and macro applications, or something along
these lines.

How would that be meaningful and to whom?It could be meaningful e.g. aspart of a code review as it gives you a

hint as to what functions are complex and thus potential candidates for
refactoring.

Google for McCabe, or cyclomatic index or just code metrics in general
and you'll find that there are quite a number of metrics out there, but
I don't think yours is one of them.

--
Erik Wikström

[Ian Collins]

peter koch wrote:

Ian Collins skrev:

>>n.************@gmail.com wrote:

>>>Is there a program/script for meaningful comparison of C/C++ code
sizes? I guess what I would consider meaningful is the number of tokens
(excluding comments but before preprocessing) except brackets, braces
and commas in function calls and macro applications, or something along
these lines.

How would that be meaningful and to whom?

It could be meaningful e.g. as part of a code review as it gives you a
hint as to what functions are complex and thus potential candidates for
refactoring.

I have a tool for that, the MK1 eyeball!

--
Ian Collins.