I need to know what the proper term for a program I wrote is. It is a program that takes a simple language input file which holds information about a program. It then writes a few C++ classes (.h ...

em-SPADE is a compiler extension to automatically detect software bugs in low-level programs. From processor specifications, a preprocessor extracts target-specific rules such as register use and read ...

These days, languages with a preprocessor usually handle it as part of the compiler, but you can also use an external preprocessor like m4 for more sophisticated uses.