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Discovering Context Information for Efficient and Accurate Program Analyses
Technical Report GIT-CC-00-14, Georgia Institute of Technology, March, 2000
Donglin Liang and Mary Jean Harrold
Abstract
A program analysis may compute spurious information for a program with
pointer variables, when the analysis uses alias
information provided by efficient flow-insensitive alias analysis
algorithms, because the program analysis cannot distinguish the alias
relations that hold in a procedure when the procedure is
invoked at a specific callsite.
This paper presents a technique that determines whether a memory location
might be accessed through a pointer dereference at a statement
in a procedure when the procedure is invoked at a specific callsite.
Empirical studies show that our technique may effectively improve the
precision and efficiency of program analyses.
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