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PLDI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Resolving and exploiting the k-CFA paradox: illuminating functional vs. object-oriented program analysis
Low-level program analysis is a fundamental problem, taking the shape of “flow analysis” in functional languages and “points-to” analysis in imperative and object-oriente...
Matthew Might, Yannis Smaragdakis, David Van Horn
POPL
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
New results on the computability and complexity of points - to analysis
Given a program and two variables p and q, the goal of points-to analysis is to check if p can point to q in some execution of the program. This well-studied problem plays a cruci...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy
PASTE
2010
ACM
14 years 2 days ago
Null dereference analysis in practice
Many analysis techniques have been proposed to determine when a potentially null value may be dereferenced. But we have observed in practice that not every potential null derefere...
Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh
SIGPLAN
2002
13 years 9 months ago
Write barrier removal by static analysis
We present a new analysis for removing unnecessary write barriers in programs that use generational garbage collection. To our knowledge, this is the first static program analysis...
Karen Zee, Martin C. Rinard
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Commutativity analysis for software parallelization: letting program transformations see the big picture
Extracting performance from many-core architectures requires software engineers to create multi-threaded applications, which significantly complicates the already daunting task of...
Farhana Aleen, Nathan Clark