Union schemas as a basis for a C++ extractor

Author

Dean, Thomas R. ; Malton, Andrew J. ; Holt, Ric

Author_Institution

Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

67

Abstract

An extractor is a program which processes source code and outputs facts about the code in a software exchange format (SEF). An SEF can be further specified by a schema, analogous to a schema for a database. This paper explains how two such schemas can be combined into a union schema as the basis for creating an extractor. We describe CPPX (C Plus Plus eXtractor), which transforms a schema designed as the internals of a compiler (GCC) to a schema designed for software exchange (Datrix). CPPX performs this transformation as a pipelined sequence of sub-transformations. At each stage in the pipeline, the intermediate data conforms to the union of the two schemas

Keywords

C++ language; pipeline processing; program compilers; reverse engineering; software engineering; utility programs; C++ extractor; CPPX extractor; Datrix schema; GCC compiler internals; intermediate data; pipelined subtransformation sequence; schema transformation; software exchange; software exchange format; source code processing; union schemas; Cloning; Data mining; Data visualization; Open source software; Pipelines; Production; Reverse engineering; Software design; Software maintenance; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Eighth Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Stuttgart

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1303-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2001.957810

Filename

957810