Using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling as a Robust, Fully Functional, Actively Maintained, Open Source C++ Parser

Piatov, Danila; Janes, Andrea; Sillitti, Alberto; Succi, Giancarlo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33442-9_45

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“…reliably identify these details from project sources, we use the C++ Development Tooling (CDT) [Piatov, 2012]. The output of the analysis is a list of definitions, in particular global variables, local static variables and static class member variables, enriched with type and identification information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The way how these annotations enforce assigning criticality levels within the runtime memory layout can be summarised as follows: during compilation phase, the source code parser -CDT [Piatov, 2012] -recognises annotations and uses them to classify all source variables in the project. In the end of the compilation phase, these properties are then applied from sources variables to binary objects.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Compiler and Language Support for Designing Mixed-Criticality Applications

Kajtazovic¹,

Hödl²,

Botler³

2021

jucs

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Coexistence of software components and functions of different criticality in a single computing platform has challenged the safety community for the past two decades. Despite efforts that have been made so far, dealing with mixed-criticality has still left some room for improvements. One particular concern here is that partitioning of hardware and software resources with regard to criticality (safety related, non-safety related) has direct implications on how safety measures need to be realised. For example, a self-test that must meet certain diagnostic coverage for the microcontroller core by inspecting its instructions, needs to cover only those instructions which are able to affect a safety function. Available software mechanisms and tools are to a certain extent still unable to deal with such a fine-grained selection of resources. In this work, we introduce a compiler extension and language support which enable accurate selection of data based on their criticality. The compiler extension serves to establish detailed traceability between the software code and its representation in runtime memory. With the language support, the individual data elements can be classified based on the desired safety integrity level. As a result, safety measures that operate on data (e.g. Abraham test for SRAM can achieve better coverage. The method has been evaluated and applied to industrial safety controllers. We provide here relevant performance figures and discuss possible applications of the method in other fields.

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A Compiler and Language Support for Designing Mixed-Criticality Applications

Kajtazovic¹,

Hödl²,

Botler³

2021

jucs

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“…The based technique for model extraction is to use a parser that provides parsing and model generation. Regarding the choice of C++ open source parser, we opted for the CDT parser, here [3] we found the reasons for choosing CDT parser to extract information from both header and source files in order to represent SLOT function definitions. The text to model transformation using CDT parser uses node visiting technique, it starts by creating the syntax tree of header file, then visiting node by node for filling in the instance model that conforms to CSTM meta-model.…”

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Toward a Timetabling Qt Application Modernization

Gourram¹,

Mbarki²,

Gotti³

et al. 2016

J SOFTW ENG THEOR AP

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Abstract--Nowadays, we note that there is a big change in technologies. To track these changes, the evolution of software development practices is required. MDE provides modernization techniques that can quickly follow these changes. We adopt this approach in order to modernize the legacy Qt timetabling application user interfaces. We conducted an automatic reverse engineering of Qt interfaces in order to have as output RIA interfaces. This automatic process reproduces user interfaces with a modern representation and retains data related to graphical components namely properties, position and actions. To illustrate this approach, let us consider FET as our legacy Qt timetabling application.

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“…Moreover, it gives a brief overview of the architecture the metric calculation system we developed. Parsing C/C++ is difficult [6,7,8] and therefore robust (can recover from errors), fully functional, actively maintained, and Open Source C/C++ parsers are hard to find. To cite a Senior Engineer at Amazon.com: "After lots of investigation, I decided that writing a parser/analysis-tool for C++ is sufficiently difficult that it's beyond what I want to do as a hobby."…”

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How to Calculate Software Metrics for Multiple Languages Using Open Source Parsers

Janes

Piatov

Sillitti

et al. 2013

Open Source Software: Quality Verification

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Abstract. Source code metrics help to evaluate the quality of the code, for example, to detect the most complex parts of the program. When writing a system which calculates metrics, especially when it has to support multiple source code languages, the biggest problem which arises is the creation of parsers for each supported language. In this paper we suggest an unusual Open Source solution, that avoids creating such parsers from scratch. We suggest and explain how to use parsers contained in the Eclipse IDE as parsers that support contemporary language features, are actively maintained, can recover from errors, and provide not just the abstract syntax tree, but the whole type information of the source program. The findings described in this paper provide to practitioners a way to use Open Source parsers without the need to deal with parser generators, or to write a parser from scratch.

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Using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling as a Robust, Fully Functional, Actively Maintained, Open Source C++ Parser

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

A Compiler and Language Support for Designing Mixed-Criticality Applications

A Compiler and Language Support for Designing Mixed-Criticality Applications

Toward a Timetabling Qt Application Modernization

How to Calculate Software Metrics for Multiple Languages Using Open Source Parsers

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