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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -> Flowchart?
Date: 1998/01/21
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Fredrick asks

<<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...
>>

I have not seen any flowcharting tools for Ada (I have not seen a flow
chart for a long time, I thought they had gone the way of ancient
Fortran-2 code -- yes, yes, I know, that means they are undoubtedly
still around :-)

But if you want to build a tool like this, why not use ASIS to build the
tool. THe whole point of ASIS is to allow you to construct tools like
this without having to mess with your own parsers etc.