Using aspectC to improve the modularity of path-specific customization in operating system code

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 88-98

  Coady, Yvonne ^a   Kiczales, Gregor ^a   Feeley, Mike ^a   Smolyn, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programming; Operating system design; Software modularity

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SOFTWARE MODULARITY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035783965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/503222.503223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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