From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b016bcd86618a299 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve O'Neill Subject: Re: ASIS information requested Date: 1997/12/03 Message-ID: <34856996.6081@lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 295004489 References: <19971130190501.OAA20473@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: Sanders A Lockheed Martin Company Reply-To: steven.m.oneill@lmco.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Majoaggro wrote: > > thanks for the reply. > i have had many helpful e mails from several of the authors of ASIS and can now > appreciate the utility of ASIS, which seems to be able to recover just about > any information if it is stored by the compiler in the first place! > it also appears that the problem may not be finding the information, it may be > using it. objects appear to be notional things in ada, and working out what an > programmer intended from the procedures and types found looks like the > challenge. the problem may be like integration, where the process can never > recover all the information of the original undifferentiated state? 9 my maths > is not that good, this may be a terrible example!). I'm also very interested in using ASIS. Primarily to extract information from existing code so that I can do rehost/redesign. Could you point me at any of the sources of information that you may have found? TIA, Steve O'Neill