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[cdt-dev] C Parser Papers
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Hey there folks,
I was just doing some other work when I came across the following
paper which I thought
was interesting (haven't fully read it yet) but :
Some, S.S. and Lethbridge, T. (1997), "Minimizing Parsing when
Extracting information
from Code in the Presence of Conditional Compilation", 6th IEEE
International Workshop
on Program Comprehension, Italy, June, pp 118-125. A longer version
appears as University
of Ottawa Computer Science Technical Report TR-98-01
Workshop: Postscript PDF
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/papers/condcomp/IWPC98.pdf
TR-98-01: Postscript PDF
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/papers/condcomp/TR-98-01.pdf
Abstract:
Exploring and understanding a software system requires parsing its
source code to extract necessary
information. This task is complicated by the use of conditional
compilation, a means offered by several
programming languages for selective compilation of source code based on
conditions. In this paper, we
discuss difficulties in parsing code with conditional compilation. We
argue that the effective way to ensure
the extraction of all meaningful information from a source file is to
parse a set of versions of that file defined
by conditional compilation, and describe an heuristic based approach
for the minimization of such parsing.
