(responding to Ashley, Srinivasan)

> I am not an expert on realtime/embedded systems development,
> so I can't really answer this. My guess would be No, but
> someone else on this list might be able to give a more
> authoritative answer.

Logically speaking, I can't see why, if any tool were *really*
good at forward-engineering, one would ever want to
reverse-engineer. The "round-trip" tools I know are
there because they do a good job of organising and
re-organising the gross structure of the code as models,
but can't do anything with the fine detail of the code.

I recall I used to use an assembly-level debugger so I
could visually inspect the low-level code produced by the
compiler. I don't think I've done that in the last 10 years.

I expect some time in the next 10 years I will have a tool
that forward-engineers code from models, and I will not
feel the need to inspect the code, trusting the forward
generation. I've seen tools that already forward-generate
onto specific architectures, ones that will plug in
parts for different architectures. If they weren't so
expensive they'd be used a lot more already, IMHO.

Paul Oldfield


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