Leveraging IBM visual age for C++ for reverse engineering tasks

Authors:
Johannes Martin
Affiliations:
University of Victoria, Department of Computer Science
Venue:
CASCON '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Year:
1999

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Abstract

The IBM VisualAge for C++ development environment provides tool writers with the ability to query the compiler's internal data structures for information on the programs being compiled. This paper shows how these features can be used to write data extractors for supplying data to common reverse engineering tools, while significantly reducing the complexity of the data extractors and the time needed to develop these as compared to using traditional approaches and programming tools.