TXL: a rapid prototyping system for programming language dialects
Computer Languages
Software—Practice & Experience
DMS: program transformations for practical scalable software evolution
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
CIL: Intermediate Language and Tools for Analysis and Transformation of C Programs
CC '02 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Compiler Construction
Handling Preprocessor-Conditioned Declarations
SCAM '02 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation
Preprocessor Conditional Removal by Simple Partial Evaluation
WCRE '01 Proceedings of the Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'01)
Relocating XML Elements from Preprocessed to Unprocessed Code
IWPC '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Refactoring Browser with Preprocessor
CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Processing Software Source Text in Automated Design Recovery and Transformation
IWPC '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Stratego/XT 0.16: components for transformation systems
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation
Stratego/XT 0.17. A language and toolset for program transformation
Science of Computer Programming
CScout: A refactoring browser for C
Science of Computer Programming
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As software systems become increasingly massive, the advantages of automated transformation tools are clearly evident. These tools allow the machine to both reason about and manipulate high-level source code. They enable off-loading of mundane and laborious programming tasks from human developer to machine, thereby reducing cost and development timeframes. Although there has been much academic work in software transformation, there still exists many hurdles in realising this technology in a commercial domain. From our own experience, there are two significant problems that must be addressed before transformation technology can be usefully applied in a commercial setting. These are: 1.) avoiding disruption of style (i.e. layout and commenting) and the introduction of any undesired modifications which occur as a side effect of the transformation process. 2.) correct handling of C preprocessing and the presentation of a semantically correct view of the program during transformation. Many existing automated transformation tools inherently disrupt style through the use of pretty printing and the need to perform preprocessing before any transformation. Some also require source to be modified so that it conforms to a subset of the grammar. In this paper we describe our own C/C++ transformation system, Proteus, that is able to meet the stringent criteria laid out by Lucent's own software developers.