NDLI: Syntactic accidents in program analysis:on the impact of the CPS transformation

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Damian, Daniel Danvy, Olivier
Abstract	We show that a non-duplicating CPS transformation has no effect on control-flow analysis and that it has a positive effect on binding-time analysis: a monovariant control-flow analysis yields equivalent results on a direct-style program and on its CPS counterpart, and a monovariant binding-time analysis yields more precise results on a CPS program than on its direct-style counterpart. Our proof technique amounts to constructing the continuation-passing style (CPS) counterpart of flow information and of binding times.Our results confirm a folklore theorem about binding-time analysis, namely that CPS has a positive effect on binding times. What may be more surprising is that this benefit holds even if contexts or continuations are not duplicated.The present study is symptomatic of an unsettling property of program analyses: their quality is unpredictably vulnerable to syntactic accidents in source programs, i.e., to the way these programs are written. More reliable program analyses require a better understanding of the effect of syntactic change.
Starting Page	209
Ending Page	220
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/357766.351260
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	9
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	Binding-time improvements Continuation-based partial evaluation Continuation-based evaluation Cps transformation of binding-time information Cps transformation of control-flow information
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

Syntactic accidents in program analysis: on the impact of the CPS transformation

Syntactic accidents in program analysis: On the impact of the CPS transformation (2003)

Continuation-Based Partial Evaluation (1993)

Syntactic Accidents in Program Analysis: On the Impact of the CPS Transformation (2000)

On static and dynamic control-flow information in program analysis and transformation (2001).

Online partial evaluation for shift and reset

Syntactic Accidents in Program Analysis: On the Impact of the CPS Transformation (2001)

Implementing typeful program transformations

Continuation-Based Partial Evaluation (1993)

Syntactic accidents in program analysis:on the impact of the CPS transformation

Similar Documents

Syntactic accidents in program analysis: on the impact of the CPS transformation

Syntactic accidents in program analysis: On the impact of the CPS transformation (2003)

Continuation-Based Partial Evaluation (1993)

Syntactic Accidents in Program Analysis: On the Impact of the CPS Transformation (2000)

On static and dynamic control-flow information in program analysis and transformation (2001).

Online partial evaluation for shift and reset

Syntactic Accidents in Program Analysis: On the Impact of the CPS Transformation (2001)

Implementing typeful program transformations

Continuation-Based Partial Evaluation (1993)

Syntactic accidents in program analysis:on the impact of the CPS transformation