Sifting out the mud: Low level C++ code reuse

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 275-291

  De Sutter, Bjorn ^a   De Bus, Bruno ^a   De Bosschere, Koen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Code compaction; Code size reduction

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ALPHA ARCHITECTURE; CODE ABSTRACTION; CODE GENERATION; CODE SIZE REDUCTION; DATA COMPACTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 0038785916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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