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Subject: Reverse Engineering Tools
Summary: I need one
Keywords: CASE, CARE, design recovery
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Date: 7 Jun 90 21:49:15 GMT
Reply-To: mdivax1!radvan (Don Radvan)
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Organization: Mobile Data International, Richmond, B.C., Canada
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I apologize if this has recently been discussed in this group.

I will soon be involved in maintaining a medium-sized (100,000 + lines of 
C code) application which runs under Ultrix. No documentation exists. 

I think that a reverse engineering/design recovery/whatever tool would be an 
immense help. My real needs are for:

	- structure chart/data flow diagram generator
	- call graph generator
	- documentation generator
	- runs under Ultrix (DEC3100) or SunView 4.0

Also, things like a spec generator would be nice. The nearest think I can think
of is the Desire project at MCC. If you know of a _commercially_ available
system or better yet have experience with one (and opinions thereof) I would be
most grateful.

BTW, someone told me that CARE stands for Computer Aided Reverse Engineering.
Has anyone seen this acronym before? Does anyone CARE? :o)

Don Radvan
(604) 277-1511 
Mobile Data International