Apparatus and methods for source code discovery

Details Apparatus and methods for source code discovery Apparatus and methods for source code discovery

1991-10-22

1998-10-20

Black, Thomas G.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 2, 707 3, G06F 900

Patent

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058262563

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for discovering information about the source code of a computer program. The apparatus includes a translator for translating a parse tree produced for the program's language in a specific programming environment into an independent parse tree and an analyzer for analyzing the independent parse tree to discover the information. The translator is generated by a translator generator from a specification for the language and the programming environment and the analyzer is generated by an analyzer generator from a specification of the information to be discovered. The specification of the information to be discovered may specify only methods of analysis which can be completed in polynomial time. Methods of using the apparatus are also disclosed.

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