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- From: chandra@bongoaisg.com (Periannan Chandrasekaran)
- Subject: C++ Product List - Version 2.03 - PART 5/5
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- Organization: Accura Innovative Services Inc.
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 21:30:36 GMT
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- 5. Tools
- _ _____
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- In this section we will cover C++ tools which helps
- developing C++ and other programs. Some of these are already
- being covered in the previous chapters and are omitted here.
-
- 5.1. Interviews Drawing Editor
- _ _ __________ _______ ______
-
- + It is available via anonymous ftp from
- interviews.stanford.edu
-
- + On line drawing tool capable of interactive line draw-
- ing and filling. It creates a postscript file. Files
- created by Idraw can also be imported. It supports
- split view, grouping, ungrouping etc.
-
- 5.2. Interviews Interface Builder
- _ _ __________ _________ _______
-
- + It is available via anonymous ftp from
- interviews.stanford.edu
-
- + Interactive Interface building tool which creates C++
- code which can be compiled with other Libraries sup-
- plied with Interviews.
-
- 5.3. FIELD C++/C/Pascal Development Environment
- _ _ _____ _ _ ______ ___________ ___________
-
- + It is available from Brown University. Instructions for
- "semi-anonymous" ftp can be obtained by sending name,
- business address, phone and fax number to
- brusd@cs.brown.edu. Alternatively, a request may be
- faxed to Kathleen Kirman at (401)863-7657.
-
- + FIELD programming environment provides an extensive
- set of tools for programming in C++, C and Pascal.
- FIELD uses the tools of the Brown Workstation Environ-
- ment (BWE), which in turn runs on top of X11.
-
- Various utility tools provided by FIELD programming
- environment includes the following:
-
- - C++ class browser (cbrowse). This is more power-
- full when compared to iclass provided by Inter-
- Views. It offers graphical as well as textual
- output. The drawbacks are that it is much more
- slower than iclass, and it needs a lot more
- memory.
-
- - debugger. The debugger in this environment runs on
- top of dbx or gdb. It supports both GNU and AT&T
- compilers.
-
- For more information, refer to the following papers
-
- 1. Steven P. Reiss, "Connecting Tools using Message
- Passing in the FIELD Program Development Environ-
- ment", IEEE Software, July 1990, pp 57-67.
-
- 2. Steven P. Reiss, "Interacting with the FIELD
- Environment", Software: Practice and Experience,
- 20:S1, June 1990, pp. 89-115.
-
- 3. Steven P. Reiss and Scott Meyers, "FIELD Support
- for C++", USENIX C++ Conference Proceedings, April
- 1990, pp. 293-299.
-
- + Information provided by Scott Meyers (sdm@cs.brown.edu)
-
- 5.4. MTS (Memory Tuning System)
- _ _ ___ ______ ______ ______
-
- + Platform: Unknown
-
- + Commercial product marketed by :
- NewCode Technology Incorporated
- 200 Boston Avenue
- Medford, MA 02155
-
- Tel: (617) 396-3009
- Fax: (617) 395-9452
-
- + MTS includes a malloc interface that guarantees quick
- installation. Its use does not require any reprogram-
- ming. It includes a report facility that details the
- different types and sizes of a programs memory usage.
- Using the report, MTS can be tuned for a typical pro-
- gram run. For object oriented programs, this mechanism
- provides a memory management scheme for each class of
- object in use. Using MTS, the developer is relieved of
- the need to write specific code to optimize memory
- access.
-
- NewCode's MTS employs a hierarchy of memory management
- schemes that are designed to fulfill the dual purpose
- of minimizing paging activity while providing very fast
- allocation and reuse of many small and medium size
- objects. As an in memory allocator, MTS is typically
- three times as fast as the standard malloc package.
- More importantly, its contribution to minimizing paging
- overhead can lead to dramatic improvements in overall
- program performance.
-
- + Information provided by: Ze'ev Mehler (
- zeev%cybvax0@uunet.uu.net )
-
- 5.5. Cback
- _ _ _____
-
- + Platform: Works with the Cfront output. Tested with
- SUN3, SPARC, RS6000, DEC RISC, Interactive Unix and SCO
- Unix/Xenix on 386/486.
-
- + Commercial product marketed by :
- NewCode Technology Incorporated
- 200 Boston Avenue
- Medford, MA 02155
- Tel: (617) 396-3009
- Fax: (617) 395-9452
-
- + cback is a companion product to cfront based C++ trans-
- lators. It processes cfront C output and creates easy
- to read, smaller, faster and portable C code.
-
- + Information provided by: Ze'ev Mehler (
- zeev%cybvax0@uunet.uu.net )
-
- 5.5.1. Introduction
- _ _ _ ____________
-
- cback is a fast, rule driven, C to C translator that in
- addition to producing C code that is easy to read and under-
- stand, CAREFULLY eliminates unreferenced declarations,
- unreferenced static functions, redundant assignments to vptr
- and performs many other cfront specific cleanups. Each of
- cback's rules can be turned on or off to suit a variety of
- different needs.
-
- cback does a thorough job of simplifying cfront's compli-
- cated statements and expressions. Even complex cfront out-
- put that your local C compiler might reject, will compile
- without fault. cback's output is maintainable and will
- readily cross compile to systems that currently do not sup-
- port C++. cback typically eliminates 70% of cfront's C code
- output.
-
- While debugging, cback will shrink the overall size of a
- typical application by 40%. Thus during development your
- binary files as well as link and debugger load times will be
- substantially smaller and faster. When compiling with optim-
- ization, cback can also produce significant code size reduc-
- tions.
-
- cback will fit seamlessly into your compiling and debugging
- environment. Our supplied shell script will call both cfront
- and cback and will work with your current make files. In
- addition, cback will recreate appropriate line numbers and
- for Sun's cfront it will filter .stab statements for use
- with dbx.
-
- 5.5.2. Netcomments
- _ _ _ ___________
-
- From: Dale Lutz (dal@mdavcr.mda.ca) on comp.lang.c++
-
- We used cback on a rather large development (300,000 lines of C++) and
- found it to be extremely worthwhile. On the average, the size of
- executables and object files after using cback was one half the
- pre-cback size. Link times were also about 1/2 what they were before.
- Of course, your mileage may vary. In our case, you can guess it didn't
- take too long to repay our original investment.
-
- We were using SUN C++ 2.0 on SUN SPARCStations.
-
- Dale
-
- (Not an MDA spokesman, and not affliated with the cback maker in
- any way.
- Its just a great product I want other people to know about).
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