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

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Daqing Hou Hoover, H.J.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta. (Daqing Hou; Hoover, H.J.)
Abstract	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 template library (STL). As a further validation, we design a structural constraint language, SCL, to express and machine-check a wide range of constraints on the abstract semantics graph (ASG) produced by the linker
Sponsorship	IEEE CPS
Starting Page	448
Ending Page	457
File Size	912441
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769523544
ISSN	10636773
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2006.61
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-09-24
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Couplings Data mining Software engineering Joining processes Pattern analysis Libraries Reachability analysis Data models Software architecture Design engineering Datrix source-level linkage fact extraction name resolution type analysis C++
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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