>> I have found it very strange that a tool like doxygen which can create
>> all sorts of call graphs, just ignores some comments.  The comments
>> above function are very important.

I agree with you . I hated doxygen for decades because of the irritating 
annotations it required.  When I discovered IDEs were creating doxygen-like 
popups from conventional comments, I tried to figure out what they were doing. 
In the process, I discovered filters, and I created a filter to match what I 
thought the IDEs were doing.

(As it turns out, IDEs implement their own rendering independent of doxygen.)

I find it ironic I’ve gone from being a long-time hater of doxygen to being its 
advocate.


  *   John Morris


Tiny tidbit of history. Back in the 70’s, I created a comment extractor for the 
language Ratfor. We used it to maintain an alphabetical index of functions and 
to display pseudo-code. We drew our call graphs by hand and saved them in 
manila folders. Hard to imagine now.

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