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Subject: The concept of semantic patching
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:34:43 +0200
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Hi Ada novelist,

I recently learned about Coccinelle (after a French word meaning  =

ladybird/ladybug=E2=80=A6 the authors are French)
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr

The quick introduction on the home page, first made me think about a new=
  =

refactoring tool for C, then later to a semantic analysis provider like =
 =

the one we get with ASIS. However, looking a bit further, it seems to go=
  =

beyond what ASIS do. Mapped to the Ada world, this could be an ASIS  =

application, not ASIS on its own.
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/Intro_gen.pdf

Just out of curiosity, does any one ever heard about something similar i=
n  =

the Ada word ? (proprietary or not, this does not matter, I just want to=
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know)


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Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University]
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