A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Methods in object-oriented concurrent libraries hide internal synchronization details. However, information hiding may result in clients causing thread safety violations by invoki...
Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, E. Allen Emerson, Sriram Sa...
Most compiler optimizations and software productivity tools rely on information about the effects of pointer dereferences in a program. The purpose of points-to analysis is to com...
Dotplot is a technique for visualizing patterns of string matches in millions of lines of text and code. Patterns may be explored interactively or detected automatically. Applicat...
Data-flow analysis is a common technique to gather program information for use in transformations such as register allocation, dead-code elimination, common subexpression elimina...