It also collects information on function calls. The functionality of sbtags is similar to ctags and etags , except for the Call Grapher information. You may mix direct queries to the database for definitions and graphing with pattern-matching queries. The database does not contain information on all symbols and strings. It contains information on functions, classes, types, and calls to functions.
Time is saved since the sbtags program runs faster than the compiler.
The database size is much smaller than the size of your source code. The database content is not guaranteed to be semantically correct because the sbtags program performs only simple syntactic and semantic analysis and may sometimes be in error. A database is generated even if the source code cannot be compiled because the code is incomplete or semantically incorrect. Inc. Copyright information . All rights reserved.