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Incremental algorithms for inter-procedural analysis of safety properties

Authors:

Christopher L. Conway,

Kedar S. Namjoshi,

Stephen A. EdwardsAuthors Info & Claims

CAV'05: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computer Aided Verification

Pages 449 - 461

https://doi.org/10.1007/11513988_45

Published: 06 July 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Automaton-based static program analysis has proved to be an effective tool for bug finding. Current tools generally re-analyze a program from scratch in response to a change in the code, which can result in much duplicated effort. We present an inter-procedural algorithm that analyzes incrementally in response to program changes and present experiments for a null-pointer dereference analysis. It shows a substantial speed-up over re-analysis from scratch, with a manageable amount of disk space used to store information between analysis runs.

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Incremental algorithms for inter-procedural analysis of safety properties
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CAV'05: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computer Aided Verification

July 2005

564 pages

ISBN:3540272313

Editors:
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LFCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
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Sriram K. Rajamani
LFCS, School of Informatics, Microsoft Research India

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