C/C++ SIG
OF SOFTWARE FORUM

 March 24,  Friday,  6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
    Parsing New Features in C++
     Discussion of the differences between the ANSI/ISO Draft
      and the ARM with an emphasis on how these changes
      affect a parser.
Speaker:  Jerry Schwartz, Ph.D.
 -  an author of iostream class library
 -  Has worked at University of Edinburgh,
  Bell Labs, and Declarative Systems
 -  Member, joint ANSI/ISO standards committee
 -  For free software relevant to this topic, anonymous
  ftp at ftp.crl.com at /user/ro/jss/slice.Z (see man
  pages below)

FUTURE MEETINGS: (Fridays, 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.)
April 28     Avoiding Re-Compilation of Class  Libraries
     by Michael Ball of SUN Microsystems
May 12     DirectToSOM C++- Programming
     it Directly in C++     ( IBM   s System
    Object Module for binary compatibility)
     by Tom Pennello, Founder of MetaWare
June 9  Topic to be announced.  Dmitry Lenkov of
 Hewlett Packard Laboratories,
 Chair of ANSI C++ Committee

Location:  UC Santa Cruz Extension,
     3120 De La Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara
Contact:   Marian Corcoran, mcorcora@ix.netcom.com
Cost:  $10.00, $3.00 for students
    free to one     photography buff    willing to take pictures
    free to someone willing to write article

Note:  Although all are welcome and all will learn from
these presentations, the target level is for those with an intermediate
to advanced understanding of C++
    A summary of our last meeting and some examples of STL will
be discussed at the 6:15 to 6:45 slot in this meeting.

>Dear Colleague,
>
>What's the greatest invention since sliced bread?  Sliced programs.
>
>Have you ever spent hours trying to reduce a 50,000 line program to a
>small test case, and have you ever thought it ought to be possible to
>automate the process?  I know I have.  Using Declarative System's C++
>Auditor I have built such a tool.  As a promotional offer I'm making
>it available via anonymous ftp.  Feel free to use it and pass it on to
>your friends.  The man page for "slice" is attached below.  A
>compressed SunOs 4.X executable can be picked via anonymous ftp from
>ftp.crl.com at /users/ro/jss/slice.Z
>
>All I ask is that if you pick it up and use it, you let me know.
>Feel free to report any bugs you find, but this is (obviously)
>unsupported software.
>
>And if you have any interest in, or questions about, the C++ Auditor
>please contact me.  The ftp site also has the postscript for a short
>paper (intro.ps) describing the Auditor in more detail.
>
>  -- Jerry Schwarz
>  -- jss@declarative.com
>  -- 415-321-2613
>
>
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>
>
>
>SLICE(1)                 USER COMMANDS                   SLICE(1)
>
>
>
>NAME
>     slice - cut a C++ source file down to size
>
>SYNOPSIS
>     slice [ -bom ] [ sourcefile ]
>
>DESCRIPTION
>     The sourcefile (or standard input if no sourcefile is speci-
>     fied)  should  contain a preprocessed C++ program.  The pur-
>     pose of slice is to reduce that  program  to  the  last  top
>     level  declaration,  and  (recursively)  any declarations of
>     names referred to.
>
>     Line breaks are preserved but whitespace is not.  The source
>     file  may contain comments, #line and #pragma directives but
>     no  #define or #include preprocessor directives.
>
>     slice may be useful to anyone who  develops  C++  tools  and
>     needs  to  deal  with customer bug reports of the form "your
>     tool breaks on line 41368 of the attached program."
>
>OPTIONS
>     -b   Normally slice does not include the bodies of  function
>          definitions  (or  the  member initializers in construc-
>          tors.) When -b is specified slice  includes  bodies  in
>          function definitions.
>
>     -o   Normally slice includes  only  variants  of  overloaded
>          functions  that  are really needed.  If -o is specified
>          it includes declarations for all variants if one  vari-
>          ant is referred to.
>
>     -m   Normally slice only includes members of  a  class  that
>          are  actually  referenced.   If -m is specified it will
>          include all members of a class if it includes any  part
>          of the definition of that class.
>
>AVAILABILITY
>     slice is provided free by Declarative Systems as  a  demons-
>     tration  of  the  C++  Auditor,  which is the parser used to
>     build slice. For more information on the C++ Auditor (or  to
>     report a bug in slice) send email to auditor@declarative.com
>     or call us at 415-321-2613.
>
>BUGS
>     References to default and copy  constructors  are  sometimes
>     ignored.
>
>     Aggregate initializations (using {}) don't count  as  refer-
>     ences to the members being initialized.
>
>
>
>
>
>Sun Release 4.1     Last change: January 1995                   1
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>SLICE(1)                 USER COMMANDS                   SLICE(1)
>
>
>
>     slice does not report errors it detects in the source  file.
>     If  errors  are present and its error recovery fails, refer-
>     ences may be ignored.