Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control / Vol. 19, No. 1, 2009

Open Source Integrated Lexical Analyzer for Commented Code Lines

Radu BURCEA – MANEA – ȚONIȘ

Abstract:

This paper describes the design and implementation of a lexical analyzer that automatically generates documentation to assist classic code optimizations. This scanner contains one new component, a distinct module for analyzing tokens and lexemes in order to produce the basic documentation of the source code, which is not commonly found in traditional lexical analyzers. The resulted documentation accumulates profile information and supplies this information to identify new optimization opportunities that are not visible to traditional methods. Experimental results show that the AGCC lexical analyzer significantly improves the performance of C Compilers in terms of execution time and error alerts.

Keywords:
Compiler, lexical analyzer, token, code optimization.

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Radu BURCEA – MANEA – ȚONIȘ, "Open Source Integrated Lexical Analyzer for Commented Code Lines", Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control, ISSN 1220-1758, vol. 19(1), pp. 35-42, 2009.