Identifying syntactic differences between two programs

doi:10.1002/spe.4380210706

Identifying syntactic differences between two programs

2006-10-30

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DOI：10.1002/spe.4380210706

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AbstractProgrammers frequently face the need to identify the differences between two programs, usually two different versions of a program. Text‐based tools such as the UNIXr̀ utility diff often produce unsatisfactory comparisons because they cannot accurately pinpoint the differences and because they sometimes produce irrelevant differences. Since programs have a rigid syntactic structure as described by the grammar of the programming language in which they are written, we develop a comparison algorithm that exploits knowledge of the grammar. The algorithm, which is based on a dynamic programming scheme, can point out the differences between two programs more accurately than previous text comparison tools. Finally, the two programs are pretty‐printed ‘synchronously’ with the differences highlighted so that the differences are easily identified.

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