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Ira Baxter wrote:
> "patrick boulay" <boulayp@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:494A312B.2000004@free.fr...
>> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
>>> patrick boulay a �crit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am looking for a reference on the DIANA ...
>>>> patrick
>>> Diana was an attempt to standardize the intermediate tree of Ada
>>> compilers, ...
>>>
>>> What kind of application do you have in mind?
>>>
>> PL/SQL reverse engineering
> 
> DIANA simply won't work for that.  It is very specific to Ada.
> 
> If you want to work on PL/SQL, you need working parsers and ASTs for PL/SQL.
> 
> I think you can use ANTLR to parse and build trees, but after that, you're
> completely
> on your own.  Fair warning: I have no specific experience with ANTLR than
> being a serious
> student of the technology they use.
> See www.antlr.org.
> 
> You can use our DMS to parse and build ASTs for PL/SQL.  DMS provides
> all kinds of additional facilities, such as symbol table building, support
> for extracting and building control and data flow graphs, iterative data
> flow
> equuation solvers, point-to analyzers, source-level pattern specificaitons,
> rewrite rules written in source notation, and regeneration of compilable
> text
> from ASTs via prettyprinting.  DMS handles other langauges such
> as C, C++, Java, COBOL, and well, Ada to some extent.
> See the website, below.
> 
> 
thank you for all these insights
Patrick