Reverse Engineering C++ Dependencies

[johnmc]

I have not thoroughly tested reverse engineering of C++, but it appears to work much better than competing products. One feature I find important is the correct discovery of dependencies between classes.

As far as I can tell, dependencies are not inferred from function bodies. I.e. in the following code, Class1 will not be shown to be dependant on Class2, even though it is:

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class Class2
{
  static void doSomethingElseStatic() {}
  void doSomethingElse() {}
};

class Class1
{
  void doSomething()
  {
    Class2::doSomethingElseStatic();
    Class2 c2;
    c2.doSomethingElse();
  }
};


Is there something I am doing wrong? Can this be fixed/added?

Thanks,
John

[johnmc]

I received a response from my bug report - EA does not support the parsing of method bodies and therefore this feature cannot be added at this time. They did say that they have added a feature request, but they cannot confirm if/when it will be implemented.

[Jim Beck]

Thank you for posting.  We have been trying today to figure out how to get EA to bring in function bodies when reverse engineering.  It seems like a very essential part of reverse engineering.  I too will be making a feature request.  Thanks again for making this clear.

Jim