Scalable Pointer Analysis

Qirun Zhang
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Project Introduction

This project focuses on scaling CFL-Reachabiliby-Based Pointer Analysis. Pointer analysis is a fundamental static analysis problem. Improving the scalability of pointer analysis can benefit many subsequent static analyses such as available expression analysis and constant propagation analysis. This project presents a set of fast algorithms for solving the all-pairs CFL-reachability in pointer analyses. In particular, it introduces fast Dyck-CFL-reachability algorithms which increase the scalability of an existing alias analysis for Java by three orders of magnitude.

Selected Paper

“Fast Algorithms for Dyck-CFL-Reachability with Applications to Alias Analysis,” Qirun Zhang, M.R. Lyu, Hao Yuan and Zhendong Su, in Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2013), Seattle, Washington, USA, June 16 – 22, 2013. Paper

 
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