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by mikevm 1718 days ago
Many years ago, when working on at a company with a huge legacy C/C++ codebase, one of the coworkers recommended I try out Source Insight[0]. After tweaking a few of the settings, it blew any other IDE out of the water. The ability to just click on a symbol and immediately see all the xrefs at the bottom was super helpful. IIRC it's also commonly used by security researchers to find their way through a new project.

[0] https://www.sourceinsight.com

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I really like SourceTrail[0]. Unfortunately they've just announced that they're stopping development. [0] https://www.sourcetrail.com/
Can't you do that with CLion?
I haven't used it, but having experience with IntelliJ IDEA and GoLand, they are slower and more cumbersome. In SourceInsight you click on any symbol and immediately you get xrefs, the function's source code (if it's a function), etc...