Power, James F. and Malloy, Brian A. (2000) Symbol table construction and name lookup in ISO C++. In: 37th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 2000. TOOLS-Pacific 2000. Proceedings. IEEE, pp. 57-68. ISBN 0769509185

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Abstract

The authors present an object oriented model of symbol table construction and name lookup for ISO C++ using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Our use of UML class, activity and sequence diagrams serves to explicate our model and our use of patterns such as decorator and facade increase the understandability of the model. Clause three of the ISO C++ standard describes the procedures and rules for performing name lookup; our activity and sequence diagrams serve to simulate these procedures in graphical fashion. An advantage of our approach is that our model can increase C++ understandability for those practitioners with a working UML knowledge. An important contribution of our work is that our model forms the basis for construction of a parser front-end for ISO C++. Our explication of the name lookup problem represents a necessary first step in this construction and our component approach is independent of the compiler technology utilized. Our use of the UML in describing parser driven applications demonstrates how front-end development can be integrated into an object oriented framework. Construction of an ISO C++ front-end will help to increase the collection of tools for applications that use this popular language

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This is the preprint version of the published chapter, which is available at DOI: 10.1109/TOOLS.2000.891358
Keywords:	C++ language; ISO standards; specification languages; Symbol table construction;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	6456
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/TOOLS.2000.891358
Depositing User:	Dr. James Power
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2015 14:31
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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