Crufty Stuff

Joel Sherrill posted back in 2010 about the lines of code in RTEMS. I was curious about something related to this so first I replicated his work using sloccount. I think he may have neglected the inline files (because I had to add the .inl extension). I also added support for m4, .ac, and .am files. The latter two are part of the autotools build system and are filed under 'makefile'. Here are the current results on the RTEMS tree

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
ansic:       745153 (86.51%)
asm:          38574 (4.48%)
makefile:     34934 (4.06%)
ada:          26261 (3.05%)
sh:            7086 (0.82%)
cpp:           5248 (0.61%)
m4:            2996 (0.35%)
pascal:         814 (0.09%)
perl:           279 (0.03%)

Total SLOC  861,345

Now for the interesting part: I also ran sloccount after running bootstrap, which generates a bunch of files for the build system. I modified sloccount to also count the Makefile.in files (which are generated with autotools from Makefile.am sources). Here are the results

ansic:       745153 (35.73%)
sh:          638471 (30.61%)
makefile:    557257 (26.72%)
m4:           73475 (3.52%)
asm:          38574 (1.85%)
ada:          26261 (1.26%)
cpp:           5248 (0.25%)
pascal:         814 (0.04%)
perl:           279 (0.01%)

SLOC*     2,085,532
* includes generated files

And do you know how many humans look at that generated code? Any idea how much of it is tested?

It would be interesting to include all the other code that goes into making RTEMS work such as the compiler, RPM packing scripts, and so on. The moral of this data is that the build system is complex. Very complex.

This data was generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'.