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or Judith E. Grass Yih-Farn Chen AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ 07974 The C++ Information Abstractor, cia++, builds a database of information extracted from C++ programs. The database can serve as a foundation for the rapid development of C++ programming tools. Such tools include tools that graphically display various views of the program structure, tools that answer queries about program symbols and relationships, and tools that extract self-contained components from a large system. Cia++ is a new abstractor implementation based on the design of the C Information Abstractor. This paper describes the conceptual model of cia++ and examples of relational views and applications developed on the C++ program database. It also presents some aspects of the implementation. 1 Motivation C++ is rapidly becoming a language of choice for developing large application programs due to its object-oriented paradigm. Many new C++ programmers come from the C programming community. The transit...

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