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by mattmanser 5281 days ago
Many times I've dreamed of having such an IDE. I'm sure others here have too.

Anyone ever tried writing it? Just wondering if there's a reason why it doesn't exist yet.

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I once wrote a parser that did this for a large and undocumented Object Pascal project. The problem is OO code enables run time binding to objects and functions, so your compile time decoder often returns ambiguous results. However, I found simply including possible code paths was still useful because they tend to be related functionality to what you are debugging.