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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ef1eddba1e2ec078 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: James Cross Subject: Re: Ada -> Flowchart? Date: 1998/01/28 Message-ID: <34CFB5E2.D28FD138@eng.auburn.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 320095424 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199801211148.MAA09958@olaris.misil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Auburn University Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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)