NDLI: dsOli: data structure operation location and identification

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	White, David H.
Abstract	Comprehension of C programs can be a difficult task, especially when they contain pointer-based dynamic data structures. This paper describes our tool dsOli which aims to simplify this problem by automatically locating and identifying data structure operations in C programs, such as inserting into a singly linked list. The approach is based on a dynamic analysis that seeks to identify functional units in a program by observing repetitive temporal patterns caused by multiple invocations of code fragments. The behaviour of these functional units is then classified by matching the associated heap states against templates describing common data structure operations. The analysis results are available to the user via XML output, and can also be viewed using an intuitive GUI which overlays the learnt information on the program source code. .
Starting Page	48
Ending Page	52
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450328791
DOI	10.1145/2597008.2597800
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-06-02
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Program comprehension C programs Machine learning Pointer-based dynamic data structures
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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dsOli: data structure operation location and identification