Library transformations

Author

Schupp, Sibylle ; Gregor, Douglas ; Musser, David ; Liu, Shin-Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

121

Abstract

While software methodology encourages the use of software libraries and advocates architectures of layered libraries, in practice the composition of libraries is not always seamless and the combination of two well-designed libraries not necessarily well designed, since it could result in suboptimal call sequences, lost functionality, or avoidable overhead. In this paper we introduce Simplicissimus, a framework for rewrite-based source code transformations, that allows for code replacement in a systematic and safe manner. We discuss the design and implementation of the framework and illustrate its functionality with applications in several areas. Simplicissimus is integrated into the Gnu C++ compiler

Keywords

program compilers; rewriting systems; software libraries; Gnu C++ compiler; Simplicissimus; code replacement; layered libraries; overhead; rewrite-based source code transformations; software library transformations; software methodology; suboptimal call sequences; Application software; Computer science; Containers; Linear algebra; National electric code; Production; Programming profession; Robustness; Software libraries; Software reusability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2001. Proceedings. First IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1387-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCAM.2001.972672

Filename

972672