Abstract: A software development architecture is provided for constructing a wide range of software development tools. A software development tool can be created by integrating a specification specifying functionality specific to a set of software development scenarios into a software development scenario-independent framework. The integrated specification can then be compiled to create the software development tool. Alternatively, integration can be achieved at runtime without access to source code. The architecture can use any combination of the following: a software scenario independent intermediate representation format, one or more exception handling models capable of supporting a plurality of programming language specific exception handling models, a type system capable of representing the type representations of a plurality of source languages, and a code generator capable of generating code targeted for a plurality of execution architectures.

Abstract: As described herein, an intermediate representation of a source code file may be used to explicitly express exception handling control flow prior to generating object code for the source code. As further described herein, a single uniform set of instructions of the intermediate representation may be used for expressing multiple different exception handling mechanisms related to multiple different programming languages. The intermediate form of the exception handling instructions may be generated by translating an intermediate language representation of the source code file. Representations of the source code in multiple different intermediate languages may be translated to a single uniform set of instructions of the intermediate representation. The intermediate form of the exception handling instructions may then be used by software development tools for such tasks as code generation, code optimization, code analysis etc.

Abstract: As described herein, an intermediate representation of a source code file may be used to explicitly express exception handling control flow prior to generating object code for the source code. As further described herein, a single uniform set of instructions of the intermediate representation may be used for expressing multiple different exception handling mechanisms related to multiple different programming languages. The intermediate form of the exception handling instructions may be generated by translating an intermediate language representation of the source code file. Representations of the source code in multiple different intermediate languages may be translated to a single uniform set of instructions of the intermediate representation. The intermediate form of the exception handling instructions may then be used by software development tools for such tasks as code generation, code optimization, code analysis etc.

Abstract: As described herein, an intermediate representation of a source code file may be used to explicitly express exception handling control flow prior to generating object code for the source code. As further described herein, a single uniform set of instructions of the intermediate representation may be used for expressing multiple different exception handling mechanisms related to multiple different programming languages. The intermediate form of the exception handling instructions may be generated by translating an intermediate language representation of the source code file. Representations of the source code in multiple different intermediate languages may be translated to a single uniform set of instructions of the intermediate representation. The intermediate form of the exception handling instructions may then be used by software development tools for such tasks as code generation, code optimization, code analysis etc.

Abstract: A software development architecture is provided for constructing a wide range of software development tools. A software development tool can be created by integrating a specification specifying functionality specific to a set of software development scenarios into a software development scenario-independent framework. The integrated specification can then be compiled to create the software development tool. Alternatively, integration can be achieved at runtime without access to source code. The architecture can use any combination of the following: a software scenario independent intermediate representation format, one or more exception handling models capable of supporting a plurality of programming language specific exception handling models, a type system capable of representing the type representations of a plurality of source languages, and a code generator capable of generating code targeted for a plurality of execution architectures.