C/C++ Source Code Introspection Using the CDT

Chris Recoskie (IBM Canada Ltd.), Beth Tibbitts (IBM Research)

C/C++ Development · Long Talk
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Wednesday, 11:10, 50 minutes | Great America Ballroom JK

Chris Recoskie

Beth Tibbitts

The C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Project provides C and C++ parsers and indexers which can be used to store detailed structural information about the user's C and C++ code constructs. This long talk will provide an introduction to the architecture of the parser, indexer, and related data structures, and will illustrate via examples how this information can be used to perform detailed analysis of the user's code.

Chris is the Team Lead for IBM's CDT team, and a committer on CDT.

Beth R. Tibbitts is a 28+ year veteran of software development in IBM, including APL and LISP, both underdog languages and environments, and eventually C++ and Java. Beth worked on Expert Systems tools in her early days at IBM Research. She then worked in debugger development. Beth wrote Java book reviews and articles for the IBM developerworks site in its earlier days. She developed software in Java for IBM "Reinventing Education" grants, for training/evaluation of ADHD children, and for making web sites more accessible to persons with disabilities. She became a fan of Eclipse a few years ago and has written tools for programmers and users including tools for porting C and C++ programs to Linux, and now in the area of High Performance and High Productivity Tools. Beth is a committer on the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) Eclipse project.