ASIS question: How to detect branches of if statments?

ASIS question: How to detect branches of if statments?

[Peter C. Chapin]

Hi! I'm attempting to build an ASIS application. In my application I 
need to construct a control flow graph (CFG) of, for example, a 
particular procedure. For now I'm restricting myself to procedures with 
if/else statements and simple loops without internal exit statements. 
This is a class project so complete coverage of Ada is definitely not 
necessary.

I see how to create the CFG for the loops. I provide pre and post 
traversal procedures. For ordinary statements I attach a new node to a 
"working point" in my graph. When I encounter a while loop (say), I 
create a node for the predicate and push the node on a stack. When I 
come to the end of the loop (in my post traversal procedure), I pop the 
stack and connect the last node of the loop body to the header node, 
etc.

I can do something similar to handle an if statement with a single 
clause. But I'm stuck on how to handle if/else statements:

    	if X = Y then
    	  -- Stuff.
    	else
    	  -- Other stuff.
    	end if;

I can see the beginning of the if statement and I can see the end of it 
("end if") but the traversal returns "stuff" and "other stuff" in one 
continuous stream without any obvious indication where the else fits 
into things. Clearly I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what. I saw 
some things about "Statement Paths" in the Asis.Statements package spec, 
but there isn't a lot of explanation about what they are. Is that 
something I should be playing with?

I've looked at a couple of ASIS tutorials and they were helpful in 
getting me started, but it seems like I'm going to need some more 
detailed information now. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good 
tutorial that might fit where I'm at?

Thanks!

Peter

Re: ASIS question: How to detect branches of if statments?

[Stephen Leake]

I've done some ASIS stuff, but I have not done statement traversals
yet. I'm surprised you don't get something for the 'else'.

You should ask on the SIGAda ASIS mailing list. See
http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/asiswg/asiswg.html (near the bottom of
the page, under "Becoming Involved" to join.


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