A user selectable (on or off) editor feature to display the status of variables. Ideally the feature would show whether a variable is local, global, static, described in this file or another file, etc.
This capability would make it easier locating variables in large multi-file projects and might even help to reduce the number of variables described or defined. I do love your editor's 'find in files' feature though.
Quote from: PhilG57 on February 15, 2026, 02:16:00 PMThis capability would make it easier locating variables in large multi-file projects and might even help to reduce the number of variables described or defined. I do love your editor's 'find in files' feature though.
Perhaps a new Add-In for collect some info from an object files ?
Just do it yourself ?
EDIT: also tag-files contains useful info ?
I have no idea how to do that. Besides, I thought Pelle was looking for something to do.
https://forum.pellesc.de/index.php?msg=41529 (https://forum.pellesc.de/index.php?msg=41529)
Modify this for a your purposes.
Use pope.exe to examine obj-files for symbols.
Thanks, but I don't think this is it. I'm hoping for a capability that, while in the editor, I can know if a particular compiler symbol is defined or not. A symbol like "_WIN32" or "__32BIT__" or more likely some user symbol defined in the code itself and evaluated (by the preprocessor??) with #ifdef and #ifndef statements. With this capability I could, while in the editor, know and see which path through the source code the preprocessor and compiler is taking.
I didn't actually look at your suggestion seeing as it referenced .obj (already compiled) files so if I am missing the boat here, please LMK. Thanks.