Lawrence W Hunter

US Patent:

48602035, Aug 22, 1989

Filed:

Sep 17, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/908436

Inventors:

Colleen M. Corrigan - Chicago IL
Lawrence W. Hunter - Austin TX
John A. Modry - Rochester MN

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 300
G06F 1500

US Classification:

364300

Abstract:

An apparatus for producing machine executable object code, a program listing and a listing of design documentation from a source code program consisting of a plurality of statements of implementation code including keywords and a plurality of statements of design documentation code wherein the design documentation code includes words corresponding to the keywords of the implementation code. The apparatus includes a processor for reading the source code program, a compiler for producing the machine executable object code from the implementation code, and the program listing. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an extractor that produces the design documentation by listing all of the design documentation code with the corresponding keywords in the order of appearance in the source program.