[GCC-XML]gcc-xml , can serve to my goal?

[David Abrahams]

Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> writes:

> Mario,
> 
> > I'm a Computer Science Engineering Student. I'm working at my master
> > thesis on the subject of Reverse Engineering. To be precise my thesis is
> > about the development of a software tool for the recovering of scenarios
> > ( use cases view ) from C++ source code.
> > I've studied some methodologies about this recovering process as MM-Path
> > and ASF ( Atomic System Function ). To implement a software tool that
> > use these methodologies i need to do some analysis on c++ code such as
> > parsing , symbol table management , control flow analysis and data flow
> > analysis. I've not already done a deep analysis on *all* information i
> > must to extract from code.
> > I'd like to know if gccxml is suitable as a analysis platform to extract
> > from code the info i require ( for example list of Methods , Class
> > Hierarchy , Symbols informations and the capability of identify some
> > particular type of statements[like I/O statements] to record in witch
> > method a MM-Path start and/or die).
> > If someone who has a certain degree of practice with gccxml can
> > summarize me the features that gcc-xml can give to my goal i would thank
> > him a lot!  I've read some docs from the gcc-xml site but i need to
> > better understand what it can do and what remains on my shoulder :)
> 
> GCC-XML would be useful for extracting class hierarchy, method, and
> function declaration information.  However, since it doesn't dump function
> bodies, it is not useful for control flow analysis or identification of
> statement types.
> 
> I'd suggest looking at OpenC++, an open-source C++ parser.  The last time
> I looked at it, it was still missing some template-related features, 

Not any more. It seems to compile all of Boost.Python now, with only
slight tweaks.


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