Add block grouping

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
reverse-engineering

Research direction

Start by reviewing the CFG and basic-block APIs; the issue does not identify a file, test, or entry point. The requested outcome is support for grouping basic blocks into a new group-block so complex CFGs, such as giant command-line case-switches, become easier to understand.

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Description

Component: UI Effort: Medium Impact: Medium UI: Graph

When dealing with complex CFG, sometimes is useful to have the possibility to group basic blocks into a new group-block. This would allow to clear the cfg and give a better understanding of the program structure.
For example, if the command line parsing is implemented as a giant case-switch grouping together basic blocks responsible for the parsing into a new block would clean the CFG a lot.
There is any plan for such feature?

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