Research in Computer-Assisted Documentation of Computer Programs. Volume 2

The purpose of the research is to discover and develop methods and principles by means of which a computer program which has little or no documentation can be easily documented by a human programmer with the assistance of a computer. The report: discusses the problem of documentation of computer pro...

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Main Author: Berkeley,Edmund C
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ANALYSIS
AUTOMATIC
COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS
Computer Programming and Software
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DECODING
DOCUMENTS
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Summary:The purpose of the research is to discover and develop methods and principles by means of which a computer program which has little or no documentation can be easily documented by a human programmer with the assistance of a computer. The report: discusses the problem of documentation of computer programs: presents a further model of a 'Simulator Analyzer' computer program which simulates a computer and analyzes an undocumented working binary program; presents a computer program which expresses this simulator analyzer; demonstrates how this works on some simple examples; discusses comments and mnemonic symbols in computer programs, and principles for abbreviating, and suggests some preferred abbreviations; discusses relocation of a working binary program without knowing how it works; presents a successful relocation of a working binary program for a dynamic debugging program without knowing the symbolic program from which it was assembled. (Author) See also Volume 1, AD-702 742.