Towards reverse engineering of intermediate code for documentation generators

M. Moser, M. Pfeiffer, J. Pichler. Towards reverse engineering of intermediate code for documentation generators. pages 553-554, DOI 10.1109/SANER.2017.7884673, 2, 2017.

Autoren
  • Michael Moser
  • Michael Pfeiffer
  • Josef Pichler
Editoren
  • Martin Pinzger
  • Gabriele Bavota
  • Andrian Marcus
BuchProceedings of the 2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017)
TypIn Konferenzband
DOI10.1109/SANER.2017.7884673
NoteBest Poster Award
ISBN978-5090-5501-2
Monat2
Jahr2017
Seiten553-554
Abstract

We describe the motivation, approach and first experience from reverse engineering Common Intermediate Language (CIL) for the purpose of documentation generation. Instead of parsing source code implemented in different programming languages, we reverse engineer CIL code and thereby enable documentation generation for all programming languages that can be compiled into CIL code. Initial results show that we are able to generate documents in the same quality as compared to directly analyzing source code. To overcome initial shortcomings we introduce additional preprocessing in form of AST refactoring which is not required when analyzing source code.