GitHub Copilot : Inversing the Logic design

Mohammad Abir Abbas

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Jan 24, 2024

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To communicate your software system to other developers, users, and stakeholders logic design and flowchart are one of the best medium. Logic design helps defining the inputs, outputs , functions and condition of a software system where flowchart acts as a graphical tool to represent a software system using symbols and connectors.

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Lets now see how copilot can create logic design from a given code and help us generate a flowchart :

Sample Code

void SocketServer::_initServerSockets(const std::set<uint16_t> &ports)
{
 sockaddr_in m_address;
 std::memset(&m_address, 0, sizeof(m_address));

 m_address.sin_family = AF_INET;   // AF_INET is the Internet address family for IPv4.
 m_address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; // INADDR_ANY -> binds the socket to all available interfaces(e.g. wifi, ethernet, etc.)

 std::set<uint16_t>::iterator it = ports.begin();
 for (; it != ports.end(); it++)
 {
  m_address.sin_port = htons(*it); // htons() -> For transforming uniform byte order.
  std::pair<std::set<int>::iterator, bool> socketSetRet;
  socketSetRet = _serverSockets.insert(socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM | SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0)); //TODO: maybe add close on exec
  if (*(socketSetRet.first) == -1)
   throw std::runtime_error("Socket creation failed");
  if (bind(*(socketSetRet.first), (struct sockaddr *)&m_address…