NDLI: Demand-driven alias analysis for C

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Zheng, Xin Rugina, Radu
Abstract	This paper presents a demand-driven, flow-insensitive analysisalgorithm for answering may-alias queries. We formulate thecomputation of alias queries as a CFL-reachability problem, and use this formulation to derive a demand-driven analysis algorithm. The analysis uses a worklist algorithm that gradually explores the program structure and stops as soon as enough evidence is gathered to answer the query. Unlike existing techniques, our approach does not require building or intersecting points-to sets. Experiments show that our technique is effective at answering alias queries accurately and efficiently in a demand-driven fashion. For a set of alias queries from the SPEC2000 benchmarks, an implementation of our analysis is able to accurately answer 96% of the queries in 0.5 milliseconds per query on average, using only 65 KB of memory. Compared to a demand-driven points-to analysis that constructs and intersects points-to sets on the fly, our alias analysis can achieve better accuracy while running more than 30 times faster. The low run-time cost and low memory demands of the analysis make it a very good candidate not only for compilers, but also for interactive tools, such as program understanding tools or integrated development environments (IDEs).
Starting Page	197
Ending Page	208
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/1328897.1328464
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Demand-driven analysis Cfl reachability Pointer analysis Alias analysis Memory disambiguation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Demand-driven alias analysis for C

Efficient subcubic alias analysis for C

Fast algorithms for Dyck-CFL-reachability with applications to alias analysis

Runtime pointer disambiguation

Precise and scalable context-sensitive pointer analysis via value flow graph

Demand-driven pointer analysis

Semi-sparse flow-sensitive pointer analysis

Bootstrapping:a technique for scalable flow and context-sensitive pointer alias analysis

Demand-driven points-to analysis for Java

Demand-driven alias analysis for C

Similar Documents

Demand-driven alias analysis for C

Efficient subcubic alias analysis for C

Fast algorithms for Dyck-CFL-reachability with applications to alias analysis

Runtime pointer disambiguation

Precise and scalable context-sensitive pointer analysis via value flow graph

Demand-driven pointer analysis

Semi-sparse flow-sensitive pointer analysis

Bootstrapping:a technique for scalable flow and context-sensitive pointer alias analysis

Demand-driven points-to analysis for Java

Demand-driven alias analysis for C