Union schemas as a basis for a C++ extractor

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...

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Published inProceedings Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering pp. 59 - 67
Main Authors Dean, T.R., Malton, A.J., Holt, R.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2001
Subjects
Cloning
Data mining
Data visualization
Open source software
Pipelines
Production
Reverse engineering
Software design
Software maintenance
Software standards
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ISBN0769513034
9780769513034
ISSN1095-1350
DOI10.1109/WCRE.2001.957810

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Summary: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.
ISBN:0769513034
9780769513034
ISSN:1095-1350
DOI:10.1109/WCRE.2001.957810