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This paper presents an external representation that may be automatically generated from arbitrary C++ data structures. This representation can be used to achieve persistence in various applications. We describe the existing facilities for persistence in the EDGE graph editor. A similar technique can be used to achieve persistence in general. In addition to generating code for an external representation, a menu-controlled data structure editor for arbitrary C++ classes may be generated using the same technique.
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Newbery Paulisch, F., Manke, S., Tichy, W.F. (1990). Persistence for Arbitrary C++ Data Structures. In: Rosenberg, J., Keedy, J.L. (eds) Security and Persistence. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3178-6_26
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