Patent
1997-08-18
2000-05-09
Hafiz, Tariq R.
395702, 395705, 395703, 395708, G06F 944
Patent
active
060615133
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a method, which can be automated on an information processing device with memory, that dramatically reduces the effort required to create systems for reverse engineering source code in a plurality of structured languages into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), which represent all of the information in said source code, and to automatically analyze, display and/or manipulate those ASTs. This method makes it possible to automatically construct systems for reverse engineering source code in any of a plurality of languages and for analyzing, manipulating and/or converting such code. This method also makes it possible to display and edit information as text in compressed ASTs in human understandable, pre-specified form.
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Hafiz Tariq R.
Ingberg Todd
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