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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1991
Premkumar Devanbu, N. Plainfield, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for discovering information about the source code of a computer program. The apparatus includes a translator for translating a parse tree produced for the program's language in a specific programming environment into an independent parse tree and an analyzer for analyzing the independent parse tree to discover the information. The translator is generated by a translator generator from a specification for the language and the programming environment and the analyzer is generated by an analyzer generator from a specification of the information to be discovered. The specification of the information to be discovered may specify only methods of analysis which can be completed in polynomial time. Methods of using the apparatus are also disclosed.