Introspector is a software tool to explore the structure of programs that can be compiled with the GNU Compiler Collection. The project was started in early 2002, and made a release in November 2003. It has been restarted in November 2004 and is gaining new form.

It works by using a version of GCC modified to output data in Resource Description Framework format via the Redland API from its abstract semantic graph, then uses the special data structure "ice cube " for higher speed transfer of the data. The ice cube is a compressed data cube, a set of vectors describing the compiler graphs efficiently.

External link

• Introspector Homepage
• Here are a good list of related compiler projects

See also: AspectX , srcML , XWeaver

Closely Related Projects

• [http://wiki.dotgnu.org/Binge ]
• is an related patch to the Gcc [Cppx]
• GccXML is very similar
• GaSta is basically the same project
• [http://www.program-transformation.org/twiki/bin/view/Transform ]
• [http://www.stratego-language.org/twiki/bin/view/Stratego/WebHome ]

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• PsCan is a C Program that parses C and checks for errors

• [http://smatch.sourceforge.net/ ]
• [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfoster/cqual/ ]
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• [http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/JML.html ]
• [http://www-sop.inria.fr/lemme/verificard/modifSpec/index.html ]
• [http://pag.lcs.mit.edu/daikon/ DaIkon
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More Related projects

• See this collection (I have taken the following from them)

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Non Free Software

• [http://metacomp.stanford.edu/ The Meta Level Compilation Project from Stanford ]
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• The Vault, a programming language for reliable systems Vault (project) from ] [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ahndrich01enforcing.html Enforcing High-Level Protocols in Low-Level Software paper and Adoption and Focus: Practical Linear Types for Imperative Programming (2002) paper

• The Intentional Programming group page

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