Method and apparatus for slicing class hierarchies
US6179491A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 5, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jan 30, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 5, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/4492
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Given a class hierarchy (a collection of classes and inheritance relations among them) and a program P that uses the hierarchy, a slice of the class hierarchy is computed with respect to the program by eliminating from the hierarchy those data members, member functions, classes, and inheritance relations that are unnecessary for ensuring that the semantics of P is maintained.
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