Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis over Weight Domains with Infinite Descending Chains

  • Authors:
  • Morten Kühnrich;Stefan Schwoon;Jiří Srba;Stefan Kiefer

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark 9220;Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany 85748;Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark 9220;Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany 85748

  • Venue:
  • FOSSACS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We study generalized fixed-point equations over idempotent semirings and provide an efficient algorithm for the detection whether a sequence of Kleene's iterations stabilizes after a finite number of steps. Previously known approaches considered only bounded semirings where there are no infinite descending chains. The main novelty of our work is that we deal with semirings without the boundedness restriction. Our study is motivated by several applications from interprocedural dataflow analysis. We demonstrate how the reachability problem for weighted pushdown automata can be reduced to solving equations in the framework mentioned above and we describe a few applications to demonstrate its usability.