Re: General problem mapping objects to data and vice versa

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
11 Feb 2003 01:55:32 -0500

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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Feb 2003 01:55:32 -0500
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 03-02-034
Keywords: tools
Posted-Date: 11 Feb 2003 01:55:31 EST

tabbydan@myway.com (tabbydan) writes:


> Also, what is the feeling about general language compilers? Is there
> a push these days to make compilers multifunctional, so that (in
> addition to compiling a program for language x) one can have an API to
> the compiler code and ask it details about the code? ...


For Ada, there's a thing called ASIS (Ada Semantic Interface
Specification, or something like that), which does what you're asking
for. It gives a compiler-independent way of querying the compiler's
symbol table data structures.


- Bob


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