Abstract. The use of pointers presents serious problems for software productivity tools for software understanding, restructuring, and testing. Pointers enable indirect memory acce...
Compilers for dynamically and statically typed languages ensure safe execution by verifying that all operations are performed on appropriate values. An operation as simple as car ...
Syntactic analysis forms a foundation of many source analysis and reverse engineering tools. However, a single grammar is not always appropriate for all source analysis and manipu...
Thomas R. Dean, James R. Cordy, Andrew J. Malton, ...
Pointer analysis is a prerequisite for many program analyses, and the effectiveness of these analyses depends on the precision of the pointer information they receive. Two major a...
Terminator is a static analysis tool developed by Microsoft Research for proving termination of Windows device drivers written in C. This proof pearl describes a formalization in h...