CONCURRENCY
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
We consider the problem of converting C pointers to the less flexible concept of references. Our main application is converting scientific applications from C to Java. We provid...
ASE
2004
13 years 11 months 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...
SIGSOFT
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1998
ACM
Understanding large software systems is difficult. Traditionally, automated tools are used to assist program understanding. However, the representations constructed by these tool...
CSMR
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Maintenance activities are made more difficult when pointers are heavily used in source code: the programmer needs to build a mental model of memory locations and of the way they ...
PADL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The need for direct memory manipulation through pointers is essential in many applications. However, it is also commonly understood that the use (or probably misuse) of pointers is...
CSFW
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
A common theoretical assumption in the study of information flow security in Java-like languages is that pointers are opaque – i.e., that the only properties that can be observ...