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Source-Level Linkage: Adding Semantic Information to C++ Fact-bases

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Source-Level Linkage: Adding Semantic Information to C++ Fact-bases
Facts extracted from source code have been used to support a variety of software engineering activities, ranging from architectural understanding, through detection of design patterns, to program exploration. Several fact extractors have been developed and published in the literature, but most of them extract facts only from individual compilation units. Linking multiple fact-bases is largely overlooked. Source-level linkage is different from compilation linkage. Its goal is to assist a software engineer, not to produce an executable program. Thus a source-level linker needs to collect as many as possible facts that may be potentially helpful to a software engineer’s task, many of which are not available from a compiler linker. We present the design of a source-level linker for C++. This linker has been used to analyze a dozen of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) programs and over 200 C++ programs that cover an extensive subset of C++ features, including templates from the Standard...
Daqing Hou, H. James Hoover
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where ICSM
Authors Daqing Hou, H. James Hoover
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