Re: Are there any tools that can compare two source files

"R. L. Watkins" <RLWatkins@CompuServe.Com>
20 Dec 2001 00:41:29 -0500

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From: "R. L. Watkins" <RLWatkins@CompuServe.Com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Dec 2001 00:41:29 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 01-12-027 01-12-058
Keywords: tools
Posted-Date: 20 Dec 2001 00:41:29 EST

It seems that SG might be looking for something less than a test of
semantic equivalence. "Syntactic equivalence" might be determined by
turning both programs into ASTs to which some normalization rules
could be applied before comparison.


R. L. Watkins


> > I am looking for some tool which is more than simple text diff. I am
> > looking for a tool which can generate the structure trees for the
> > source file and compare them. It should not throw errors if the
> > structure is just re-arragned.

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