Framework for preprocessor-aware C source code analyses

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 907-924

  Badros, Greg J ^a   Notkin, David ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LEXICAL ANALYSIS; PARSING; PERL INTERPRETER; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0034227660     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(20000710)30:8<907::AID-SPE324>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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