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* "opreport -l that_dir/*"
- Profit
+Generating and analyzing a callgraph
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+1. Run ./scripts/maint/generate_callgraph.sh . This will generate a
+ bunch of files in a new ./callgraph directory.
+
+2. Run ./scripts/maint/analyze_callgraph.py callgraph/src/*/* . This
+ will do a lot of graph operations and then dump out a new
+ "callgraph.pkl" file, containing data in Python's "pickle" format.
+
+3. Run ./scripts/maint/display_callgraph.py . It will display:
+ - the number of functions reachable from each function.
+ - all strongly-connnected components in the Tor callgraph
+ - the largest bottlenecks in the largest SCC in the Tor callgraph.
+
+Note that currently the callgraph generator can't detect calls that pass
+through function pointers.
Coding conventions
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