Tool to detect/display function dependencies in Rust crates

[steveklabnik]

Issue by pcwalton
Thursday Jun 23, 2011 at 20:58 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#558

This issue was labelled with: A-an-interesting-project, A-tools, I-wishlist in the Rust repository

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This would be useful for many things:

• Figuring out which functions are dead and can be removed.
• Visualize function dependencies (with dot).
• Be the basis for a Rust ccache workalike.
• On-demand, lazy unit tests.

[frewsxcv]

If this project ever gets started and someone wants ideas for visualizing this data as graph, here is a similar project for Python (which has screenshots):

https://github.com/gak/pycallgraph/