Aspect-Aware Points-to Analysis

Points-to analysis is a fundamental analysis technique whose results are useful in compiler optimization and software engineering tools. Although many points-to analysis algorithms have been proposed for procedural and objectoriented languages like C and Java, there is no pointsto analysis for aspect-oriented languages so far. Based on Andersen-style points-to analysis for Java, we propose flowand context-insensitive points-to analysis for AspectJ. The main idea is to perform the analysis crossing the boundary between aspects and classes. Therefore, our technique is able to handle the unique aspectual features. To investigate the effectiveness of our technique, we implement our analysis approach on top of the ajc AspectJ compiler and evaluate it on nine AspectJ benchmarks. The experimental result indicates that, compared to existing Java approaches, the proposed technique can achieve a significant higher precision and run in practical time and space.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SCAM
• Authors: Qiang Sun, Jianjun Zhao
• Keywords: Fundamental Analysis Technique, Points-to Analysis, Points-to Analysis Algorithms, SCAM 2008, Software Engineering