I have used Doxigen + graphviz to get images from my code (C++ in Eclipse) but it doesn't reflect the code flow, I mean I want to get the code structures (if/else, the while) in the images....
The CoFlo open source utility can generate control flow graphs for C and C++. See their live demo.
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It is said that Pharo's VM (CogVM) is developed, tested, profiled and etc in Smalltalk, but then the Smalltalk code is transcompiled to C, which is then compiled along side with some OS abstraction C code using the default system C compiler.
Well, I'd like to do a similar thing, I wan't to develop, test and profile code using Pharo, but then compile it to C. How can I do it? How the compilation to C works? Does Pharo comes with a Smalltalk to C transcompiler? How can I invoke it? Does it compile the full Smalltalk, or I have to use some kind of a Smalltalk subset? Is there any good documentation about it?
The Pharo VM is hosted on github.
Follow the steps to build it and you'll get a Smalltalk image called "generator.image" which you can run (it's a regular image). Inside of that image you'll find the VMMaker package which is responsible for generating the C code from the special Smalltalk dialect used for this (which is called Slang; it's a subset of Smalltalk). Look at the code in the generator image to get a feel for what it does. There's also some information contained in the workspaces that are open when you first open the image.
As soon as you have the C sources it's basically straight forward C compilation (which we do with Cmake + gcc / clang).
As for documentation: you should probably read the Blue Book.
clarifiation
As #Leandro Caniglia points out in the comment, the purpose of Slang is to generate C source code for the VM. It has been designed to ease translation to C. That does not mean that:
arbitrary Smalltalk code can be translated to C using the generating mechanism
arbitrary Smalltalk code can be rewritten in Slang (at least not "easily")
I'd like to load a MATLAB file that stores a 1x1 struct with 4 fields using Go. I haven't found anything comparable to Python's SciPy which has a "loadmat" function. What is the best way to read .mat files in Go?
You may have to write your own Go package. MathWorks suggests that you interface with their MATLAB MAT-file C API. To do that in Go, use cgo.
References:
MATLAB MAT-File Format - MathWorks
Command cgo
C? Go? Cgo!
No, there doesn't seem to be any project for reading MalLab files in pure Go (in CGo, see PeterSO's answer):
go-search doesn't list any relevant project
GitHub doesn't have any either.
the Libraries list doesn't include any
And, there were performance consideration as well, mentioned in "Go matrix library".
The discussion was more about calling go from Matlab.
I am desperately looking for a way to get the control-flow graph in assembly. I have the source code written in C and the processor is x86. I have already looked at the gcc's documentation and it does provide cfg in only gimple and rtl format. Any idea how to get it in assembly format?
If all you need is to view a control flow graph of the program I can suggest to use the free evaluation version of the Interactive Disassembler, more commonly known as IDA.
If you visit their website, under the screenshots section it displays the graph view of a compiled method from the binary itself.
I am trying to extract the Control Flow Graph from the assembly code that gcc produces. I have manage to dump the CFG of several IRs (rtl phases) into .vcg files using the arguments -fdump-rtl-* and -dv. Is there any way to do the same thing but for the final assembly code? I would like a generic, target-independent and easy to be parsed representation (like vcg representation). My source code is in C language (in case that it plays any important role).
Best regards,
Michalis.
Intel PTU and VTune will do it if you can run the app for profiling... not sure if it can generate the graph without having run the code though. Otherwise you might be looking at something like this: http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora/cfg.html.
I am an engineering student, and deciding upon my final year project.
One of the many candidates is an online UML tool with code generation facilities. But I did not take compiler designing classes, so I am not much aware of the code generation techniques.
I want to know about the techniques that I should look to study in order to build something like this. If these techniques are as complicated as writing a compiler, then perhaps I will have to abandon this idea.
Compilation is really the opposite of the kind of code generation you are describing, so I don't think you need to know how to write a compiler.
Code generation can be as simple as combining text strings or using templates, or as complex as using Reflection.Emit to create classes at runtime.
I would start with this Wikipedia article.
The creation of an UML tool is a long term project. You need many to acquire different expertises which can not be known by just one member of the team.
Your academic project is too ambitious.
An easy project which has never been done is to generate code from an activity or state diagram. You should not try to recreate the graphical editor because this is very very complex but only to take the xmi export and generate code from it using a xml parser. This would be a good 6 months project for your thesis :-)
Most UML tools generate source code. The generation is normally quite a bit simpler than a compiler as well. For example, a class diagram will have a collection of data structures representing classes and links between those classes (inheritance). To generate output, you walk through the class objects, and for each you "print" out a representation of that object in the syntax of the target language.
I'm not sure exactly what capabilities your code generation will require, but the UML tools that I have used are not very sophisticated in their code generation.
Tools that I have used simply create files and drop your function names into them with arguments derived from the inputs. This would not require any understanding of compilers. Most of the difficulty would be in the user interface and how you store the data to make code generation easy.
You can just find that here:
http://yuml.me and http://askuml.com