Apparatus for automatically preparing a flowchart by analyzing a source program and a list of jump commands

摘要

A source program is stored for every line of the source program in a source program memory. Jump commands in the language used in the program are previously stored in a jump command memory for storing jump commands used in the program. The contents of the source program memory are compared with the contents of the jump command memory, the kinds of each commands in the source program are identified, and first and second identification data are produced. The first identification data which are set for each command identifies the kind of each command, and identifies that the execution contents of commands adjacent to each other along the sequence of commands are continuous. The second identification data are set for each jump command and each command to which processing is to be jumped. The first and second identification data are stored in the identification data memory. The process flow of the source program is analyzed based on the contents of the identification data memory in an analyzer. The result of the analysis by the analyser is output in the form of a flowchart.