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Try opening it up in an editor/ide with ctrl+click to step into function or similar like gvim or eclipse(and hopefully a way to jump back. eclipse also has a nice expand macro feature which lets you look at macros fully expanded and at different expansion stages.

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you are a life saver. Kind of embarrassed that I didn't do a Google search on that one.

I just found ctags. :D !

darn forgot to mention ctags. If you are up for it supposedly scope is better but I couldn't get it set up. I don't know of any vim plugin for eclipse like macro expansion but if you see hairy macros you can always do gcc -E |vim - (gcc -E does full includes so macro expansion + importing of all headers)and search for your code or jump to the bottom.

> supposedly scope is better

cscope?

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