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From: James Cross <cross@eng.auburn.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada -> Flowchart?
Date: 1998/01/28
Date: 1998-01-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34CFB5E2.D28FD138@eng.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199801211148.MAA09958@olaris.misil


Fredrik Thoernblad wrote:

> I'm often involved with reading old ada code and trying to figure out
> what the code actually does. This is always painful and boring...
> One way of understanding the logical flow of the code is to make a
> flowchart of the code. The problem is that so far I've had to do this
> by hand. I'm looking for a tool that will do this automatically, i e
> in with the code and out comes the flowchart.
> Has anyone seen a tool like this? Does it exist?
> If you have any clues to where and how to get my hands on a tool like
> this, please drop me a note!
> Otherwise I might also be interested in finding a lex/yacc ada parser,
> that way I might be able to make one myself. I just don't want to build
> the parser myself...
>
> Fredrik (fredrik.thornblad@bfs.bofors.se)

As an alternative to bulky flowcharts, you might consider Control
Structure
Diagrams (CSDs) which are automatically generated in the GRASP
environment.
Please see http://www.eng.auburn.edu/grasp for examples and downloading.
GRASP is distributed freely by Auburn University.

James Cross (cross@eng.auburn.edu)









  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-01-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-21  0:00 Ada -> Flowchart? Fredrik Thoernblad
1998-01-21  0:00 ` Sune Falck
1998-01-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-23  0:00 ` Jeff L Burns
1998-01-28  0:00 ` James Cross [this message]
1998-01-28  0:00   ` John Norcross {83602}
1998-01-30  0:00   ` Philip Johnson
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