Unique Calls

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Unique Calls is one of the source-code metrics Understand computes across 17+ languages — browse them in the GUI, export and track them, or script them with the Python API.

Metrics overview

Unique Calls

API ID: CountCallsUnique
Languages: Any
Targets: Functions

The number of unique entities that this function calls

Also known as Hersteller Initiative Software (HIS) CALLS metric.

Example:

    void func();
    void doSomething()
    {
      func();             // +1
      func();             // func() already counted
    }                     // CountCallsUnique = 1

Compare to CountCalls which counts all call references.