Program Analysis through Finite Tree Automata

  • Authors:
  • Helmut Seidl

  • Affiliations:
  • Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Technische Universität München, Garching b. München, Germany D-85748

  • Venue:
  • CIAA '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Dynamic Pushdown Networks (dpn's) have recently been introduced as a convenient abstraction of systems which provide recursive procedure calls and spawning of concurrent tasks such as Java programs [1, 4-6]. We show how the executions of dpn's can naturally be represented through ranked trees. The configuration reached by a program execution then can be read off from the sequence of leaves of this execution tree. This observation allows us to reduce decision problems such as reachability of configurations within a regular set for dpn's to standard decision problems for finite tree automata.