ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
2012
ACM
We introduce a static detector, Saber, for detecting memory leaks in C programs. Leveraging recent advances on sparse pointer analysis, Saber is the first to use a full-sparse va...
CC
2012
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2012
Springer
Pointer analysis is one of the most important static analyses during compilation. While several enhancements have been made to scale pointer analysis, the work on parallelizing the...
APLAS
2011
ACM
13 years 17 days ago
2011
ACM
We present a new SPAS (ScalablePAth-Sensitive)framework for resolving points-to sets in C programs that exploits recent advances in pointer analysis. SPAS enables intraprocedural p...
CGO
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Many program analyses benefit, both in precision and performance, from precise pointer analysis. An important dimension of pointer analysis precision is flow-sensitivity, whic...
LPAR
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
Pointer analysis statically approximates the heap pointer structure during a program execution in order to track heap objects or to establish alias relations between references, a...
SAC
2008
ACM
14 years 1 days ago
2008
ACM
se a new abstraction for pointer analysis that represents reads and writes to memory instead of traditional points-to relations. Compared to points-to graphs, our Assign-Fetch Gra...
ASE
2004
14 years 13 days ago
2004
Abstract. The use of pointers presents serious problems for software productivity tools for software understanding, restructuring, and testing. Pointers enable indirect memory acce...
POPL
1998
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1998
ACM
This paper addresses the problem of how to apply pointer analysis to a wide variety of compiler applications. We are not presenting a new pointer analysis. Rather, we focus on put...
ISSTA
2000
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2000
ACM
During the past two decades many di erent pointer analysis algorithms have been published. Although some descriptions include measurements of the e ectiveness of the algorithm, qu...
SAS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2001
Springer
This paper addresses the following question: Do scalable control-flow-insensitive pointer analyses provide the level of precision required to make them useful in compiler optimiza...